Art Institute of Chicago
Plate three, from A Harlot's Progress
William HogarthLinkedCulture matchlcp-4bc0237dded5
- Date
- 1732
- Medium
- Engraving in black on ivory laid paper
- Culture
- England
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 228985
In this print Moll has gone from being the kept woman to a common prostitute, with markedly shabbier surroundings and a servant whose nose has been partially eaten away by syphilis. Hogarth even posted a print by her bed depicting the highwayman Macheath, antihero of the wildly popular Beggar’s Opera , to suggest the rough company she keeps. She is oblivious as magistrates enter the sparsely furnished room to arrest her.
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- Credit line
- The Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston Fund
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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