[A dying Moll Hackabout is attended by two doctors] [graphic] / Wm. Hogarth invt. pinxt. et sculpt.

Edition:

[State 4].

Published/Created:

[London]
[Wm. Hogarth]
[1732]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 322 x 393 mm, on sheet 473 x 609 mm

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2091
Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 125

Notes:

Title devised by cataloger.
Series title, state, and date from Paulson.
"Plate 5."--Lower right corner.
State with black Latin cross added to center below design, and "Dr. Rock" is added to the paper holding the teeth on the right. See Paulson.
Sotheby's, F.E. Sotheby Sale, lot 215 (Hogarth's works) to Maggs for W.S. Lewis; 21 Nov. 1955; Acquisition no.: 955-11-21-6. Purchased as a bound collection of 97 prints with Sotheby bookplate; disbound January 1984.
Formerly owned by Frederick Edward Sotheby of Ecton, Northants, 1837-1909.

Abstract:

In a squalid room Moll Hackabout, wrapped in a sheet, is dying while two doctors (Richard Rock and Jean Misaubin) argue over their remedies. Her serving-woman reaches out to them in alarm to get their attention for the invalid, while another woman rifles through Moll's portmanteau (with her initials as in Plate 1). A small boy knelling next to Moll's chair scratches his head as he turns a joint of meat roasting in front of the fire while a pot overflows on the grate. An over-turned table with an advertisement "Practical scheme ... 'Anodyne" litters the floor in the foreground.

Variant Titles:

Harlot's progress. Plate 5

Associated Names:

Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 [Printmaker]
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 [Artist]

Topics:

Beds
Children
Death
Interiors
Misaubin, Jean, 1673-1734
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958
Prostitutes
Quacks
Rock, Richard, 1690-1777
Servants
Sotheby, Frederick Edward, 1837-1909
Steevens, George, 1736-1800
Syphilis

Language:

English

Genre:

Engravings -- England -- London -- 1732
Etchings -- England -- London -- 1732
Parables
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1732

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html

Call Number:

Sotheby 6++ Box 300

Orbis Record:

9887031

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr22237

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

16030554

PID:

digcoll:2808294