A harlot's progress. Plate IV [graphic] : In Bridewell beating hemp = Dans la maison de correction a battre le chanvre / invented & painted by Wm. Hogarth.

Copyright Date:

[not before 25 March 1768]

Physical Description:

1 print : engraving and etching ; plate mark 25.7 x 37 cm and plate mark 25.5 x 30 cm, on sheet 28 x 45 cm

Related Links:

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/digcoll/lwlpr38210

Notes:

Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2076.
Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 124.
Copy of Hogarth's original plate, engraved in reverse as per the piracy published by Elisha Kirkall in 1732.
Date of publication based on the series of Rake's progress by Henry Parker dated 25 March 1768 in which these same engraved border pieces are used, here visibly more worn, and reversed on the page.
The ornamental borders along the left and right edges are printed from a separate plate (images 25 x 2.8 cm, on plate mark 25.5 x 36 cm).
Title in English and French engraved below image.

Abstract:

A copy in reverse of William Hogarth's Plate 4 of A harlot's progress: 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 in 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 a shudder against the back wall is an effigy of Sir John Gonson ("Sr. J G").

Variant Titles:

Dans la maison de correction a battre le chanvre
Harlot's progress.
In Bridewell beating hemp

Topics:

Criminals.--http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85036577
Gamblers.--http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85052908
Hemp industry--Great Britain.
Hemp.--http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85060243

Topics:

Bridewell Prison.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80126106

Language:

English
French

Genre:

Engravings--England--London--1768.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1768.

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:

Hogarth 768.03.25.12+

Orbis Record:

14866212

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr38210

OID:

16873217

PID:

digcoll:4848287