A harlot's progress. [graphic] / Plate 1

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Title: A harlot's progress. [graphic] / Plate 1
Creator: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Published / Created: [April 1732]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Wm. Hogarth
Abstract: A scene outside the Bell Inn in which a country girl, Moll Hackabout, just arrived on the York Wagon, meets an extravagantly dressed bawd (Mother Needham); a clergyman on horseback fails to notice the encounter, but a lecherous old gentleman (Colonel Charteris) eyes the girl with anticipation. In the lower right the girl's initials "M.H." (M[ary?] Hackabout) are on her portmanteau, next to which is a basket with a goose with a note around its neck, "For my Loving Cosen in Tems Stret in London", presumably the person who has failed to meet her. In the background a woman hangs out her laundry on a balcony
Description: Title engraved below image.
State, publisher, and date from Paulson.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 31.7 x 39.2 cm, on sheet 45 x 56 cm.
Leaf 2 in: Album of William Hogarth prints.
Provenance: Gift of Richard Greenberg; May 2015.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 316 x 386 mm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Edition: [State 1].
Language: English