21.
- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [April 1732]
- Call Number:
- Kinnaird 5K(a) Box 200
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 4. Album of William Hogarth prints.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- In a shabby room in Drury Lane; Moll Hackabout is shown having risen late (the watch shows 11:45), attended by a serving-woman who has lost part of her nose to syphilis; in the background, the magistrate, John Gonson, enters quietly with officers to arrest her; pinned to the window frame are prints of Captain Mackheath (the hero of "The Beggar's Opera") and Dr Sacheverell (the High Anglican clergyman impeached in 1710), the wig-box of James Dalton, highwayman, sits above the bed, and one of several beer tankards on the floor carries the name of a Drury Lane tavern. A kitten plays at Moll's feet. A copy of Bishop Gibson's "Pastoral Letter to ..." serves as a butter dish. Above the window on the left is a print after a Titian painting depicting the angel staying the hand of Abraham as he is about to slay Isaac. Medicine bottles on the window sill suggest that Molly is already ill with the disease that will later kill her
- Description:
- Title, state, and date from Paulson., State before black Latin cross added. See Paulson., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and "Plate 3"--Lower left corner.
- Publisher:
- Wm. Hogarth
- Subject (Name):
- Dalton, James, -1730., Gonson, John, Sir, -1765., and Sacheverell, Henry, 1674?-1724
- Subject (Topic):
- Prostitution, Bailiffs, Cats, Judges, Prostitutes, Rake's progress, Robberies, Servants, and Syphilis
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [A harlot's progress]. [graphic] / Plate 3