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- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1732]
- Call Number:
- Sotheby 7++ Box 300
- Collection Title:
- Plate 7. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A dilapidated room with Moll Hackabout's friends, mostly prostitutes, gathered around her open coffin, several of them weeping; one young woman stands with her back to the scene as she gazes at herself in the mirror. On the left, a clergyman spills his brandy as he surreptitiously gropes beneath a woman's skirt; Moll's serving woman, standing at the coffin with a wine bottle and glass in hand scowls at the pair. Under the window and to the right, the undertaker flirts with a pretty young prostitute who picks a handkerchief from his pocket. In the foreground Moll's small son playing with a spinning top. Sprigs of yew (rosemary?) decorate her coffin; a plate of yew rests on the floor at the parson's feet, another spring at her son's feet
- Description:
- Title, date, publisher, and state from Paulson. and With addition of black Latin cross added (from state 2) in the center below design, and many additions to design. See Paulson.
- Publisher:
- Wm. Hogarth
- Subject (Topic):
- Children, Clergy, Coffins, Death, Funeral rites & ceremonies, Interiors, Prostitutes, Seduction, Servants, Syphilis, Undertakers, and Wake services
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [A harlot's progress. Plate 6] [graphic]