Plate six, from A Harlot's Progress
<p>Having expired at a young age from venereal disease, Hogarth’s harlot does not appear in the final plate of the series. She is represented by her coffin, which serves mainly as a bar. The drunkenly distraught figure at the lower right may be Moll’s former madam, but otherwise the company at the wake appears mostly unaffected by the death. One woman tries on a bonnet, likely Moll’s, before a mirror, while a parson gropes a prostitute and spills his drink.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1732
- Dimensions
- Image: 30.2 × 37.9 cm (11 15/16 × 14 15/16 in.); Plate: 31.9 × 38.8 cm (12 9/16 × 15 5/16 in.); Sheet: 43.7 × 53.5 cm (17 1/4 × 21 1/8 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- William Hogarth
Artist
Painting
William Hogarth was an English painter, engraver, satirist, cartoonist and writer. His work ranges from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects", and he is perhaps best known for his series A Harlot's Progress, A Rake's Progress and Marriage A-la-Mode. Familiarity with his work is so widespread that satirical political illustrations in this style are often referred to as "Hogarthian".
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- William Hogarth
- Year
- 1732
- Dimensions
- Image: 30.2 × 37.9 cm (11 15/16 × 14 15/16 in.); Plate: 31.9 × 38.8 cm (12 9/16 × 15 5/16 in.); Sheet: 43.7 × 53.5 cm (17 1/4 × 21 1/8 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1732-111403
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- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
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- verified