A harlots progress. Plate VI [graphic] : Her funeral properly attended = Pompe de ses funérailles / 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 28.3 x 45 cm

Related Links:

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/digcoll/lwlpr38212

Notes:

Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2107.
Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 126.
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 25.7 x 36.4 cm).
Title in English and French engraved below image.

Abstract:

A copy in reverse of William Hogarth's Plate 6 of A harlot's progress: A dilapidated room with Moll Hackabout's friends, mostly prostitutes, gathered around her open coffin, several of them weeping; one young woman stands with her back to the scene as she gazes at herself in the mirror. On the right, a clergyman spills his brandy as he surreptitiously gropes beneath a woman's skirt; Moll's serving woman, standing at the coffin with a wine bottle and glass in hand scowls at the pair. Under the window and to the left, the undertaker flirts with a pretty young prostitute who picks a handkerchief from his pocket. In the foreground Moll's small son plays with a spinning top. Sprigs of yew (rosemary?) decorate her coffin; a plate of yew rests on the floor at the parson's feet, another spring at her son's feet.

Variant Titles:

Harlot's progress.
Her funeral properly attended
Pompe de ses funérailles

Topics:

Children.
Clergy.
Coffins.
Death.
Funeral rites & ceremonies.
Interiors.
Prostitutes.
Prostitution.--http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85107626
Rake's progress.

Topics:

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 768.03.25.14+

Orbis Record:

14866233

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr38212

OID:

16873219

PID:

digcoll:4848288