Plate three, from A Harlot's Progress
<p>In this print Moll has gone from being the kept woman to a common prostitute, with markedly shabbier surroundings and a servant whose nose has been partially eaten away by syphilis. Hogarth even posted a print by her bed depicting the highwayman Macheath, antihero of the wildly popular <em>Beggar’s Opera</em>, to suggest the rough company she keeps. She is oblivious as magistrates enter the sparsely furnished room to arrest her.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1732
- Dimensions
- Image: 30 × 37.5 cm (11 13/16 × 14 13/16 in.); Plate: 32.3 × 39.3 cm (12 3/4 × 15 1/2 in.); Sheet: 43.7 × 53.6 cm (17 1/4 × 21 1/8 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- William Hogarth
Artist
Painting
William Hogarth was an English painter, engraver, satirist, cartoonist and writer. His work ranges from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects", and he is perhaps best known for his series A Harlot's Progress, A Rake's Progress and Marriage A-la-Mode. Familiarity with his work is so widespread that satirical political illustrations in this style are often referred to as "Hogarthian".
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- William Hogarth
- Year
- 1732
- Dimensions
- Image: 30 × 37.5 cm (11 13/16 × 14 13/16 in.); Plate: 32.3 × 39.3 cm (12 3/4 × 15 1/2 in.); Sheet: 43.7 × 53.6 cm (17 1/4 × 21 1/8 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1732-111399
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- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
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