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- Published / Created:
- [1732]
- Call Number:
- 732.04.00.11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An attractive young woman in country attire is shown arriving in the yard of the Bell Inn, London. An old woman approaches as a man watches from the doorway of the inn, his servant peaking out from behind him. A wagon with other country girls under the canvas pulls away; a country clergyman on horseback following behind
- Alternative Title:
- Harlot's progress. Plate 1
- Description:
- Title from caption above image., Printer's statement engraved in the lower right corner of the image., Copy in reverse of Hogarth's print published in 1732; Bowles at the Mercer's Hall address 1725-1731., Verses engraved below image, in three columns, six lines each: See there but just arrived in town, The country girl in homespun gown. Tho plain her drress appears, how neat, Her looks how innocent and sweet ... Ah Polly! thou hadst happy been, If thou his face hadst never seen., No. 1 of a series of 6 pirated copies of Hogarth's engravings of "A harlot's progress". Imprint varies from the Bowles copy described as no. 2036, Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v.3., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Below text, written in a contemporary hand: Frances Chartres, Esq, who deserv'd hanging for what he had done & was sentenced to die for what he could not do., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Iohn Bowles at Mercer's Hall in Cheapside
- Subject (Geographic):
- London (England), England, and London.
- Subject (Name):
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
- Subject (Topic):
- Social life and customs and Prostitutes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A country girl just arrived in London where an old bawd seduces her into the service of Colonel Francisco [graphic].