31.
- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1732]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Plate 5. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A scene in Bridewell prison with Moll Hackabout and the other inmates beating hemp under the supervision of a stern warder holding a cane. Moll is still dressed in her finery, but a one-eyed female attendant fingers the lace lappet hanging from her cap and her serving-woman sits before her on Moll's elegant shoes; next to her a fellow inmate picks vermin off her clothes. Next to Moll is a gambler, a torn playing card on the floor in front of him; behind her, a man stands with his hands in a pillory on which hangs a sign "Better to Work than Stand thus." Further down the wall is a whipping post with the words "The Wages of Idleness." On shudder against the back wall is an effigy of Sir John Gonson ("Sr. J G").
- Alternative Title:
- Moll Hackabout and her fellow inmates at work in Bridewell prison
- Description:
- Title, date, and state from Paulson., State with black Latin cross added (in 2nd state) in the middle, below design and many changes to the design. See Paulson., and On page 61 in volume 1. Plate trimmed to: 31.2 x 38.5 cm.
- Publisher:
- Wm. Hogarth
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- Bridewell Prison.
- Subject (Topic):
- Prostitution, Hemp industry, Criminals, Gamblers, Hemp, Prisons, Prostitutes, Syphilis, Parables, and Stocks (Punishment)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Harlot's progress. [graphic] / Plate 4]