A raggedly dressed, cross-eyed old woman stands in front of St. James's Palace. She poses with her right hand raised, fingers crossed and with her left hand held down, making a sign with her forefinger and thumb. Her tongue hangs out over her lips
Alternative Title:
Upon Granny in her native poverty
Description:
Title engraved at top of the image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Poverty, Mental illness, Poor persons, and Mentally ill persons
A raggedly dressed, cross-eyed old woman stands in front of St. James's Palace. She poses with her right hand raised, fingers crossed and with her left hand held down, making a sign with her forefinger and thumb. Her tongue hangs out over her lips
Alternative Title:
Upon Granny in her native poverty
Description:
Title engraved at top of the image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Poverty, Mental illness, Poor persons, and Mentally ill persons
A loose plagiary (reversed) after Hogarth's eighth plate in the Rake's Progress series: A scene in Bedlam with Tom half-naked and in a state of distress restrained by attendants; two women revive a fainting Sarah Young (right). Tom's old wife looks at...
Alternative Title:
Soon hurried thro' a course of vice ...
Description:
Title from original as cited by Paulson. Added titel from first line of verse etched below image. Verses (in four columns six lines each) continue: " ... with sots & panders, whores & dice, his mind by jarring passions tost ... with superstitions fear...
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Subject (Topic):
Asylums, Mental institutions, Mentally ill persons, Parables, and Rake's progress