[After] [graphic]

Description

Title: [After] [graphic]
Creator: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist, publisher.
Published / Created: [15 December 1736]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Wm. Hogarth
Abstract: Following the seduction, the young man pulls up his breeches while the young woman clings to his arm with an adoring, pleading look on her face. On the wall are two pictures one entitled "Before" and the other "After"; in the first Cupid is lighting a firework, in the second he is pointing to a spent firework. The dresser is turned over, the mirror and chamber pot broken; the curtain rod around the bed has been pulled down. The dog is curled asleep under the chair on which her corset sits. The woman's head is framed by the shell on the head
Description: Title and state from Paulson.
"Pursuant to an act of parliament. Price two shillings & 6 pence."
Companion print to Hogarth's Before, published on the same date.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
The man is said to have been modeled on Sir John Willes. See Paulson.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 41 x 32.8 cm, on sheet 56 x 45 cm.
Leaf 27 in: Album of William Hogarth prints.
Provenance: Gift of Richard Greenberg; May 2015.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 398 x 323 mm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Edition: [State 1].
Language: English