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William Hogarth, Harlot's Progress, Litographs with French Comments

About the Item

About the artist William Hogarth (10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist. His work ranges from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects", He is perhaps best known for his series A Harlot's Progress, A Rake's Progress and Marriage A-la-Mode. Knowledge of his work is so pervasive that satirical political illustrations in this style are often referred to as "Hogarthian". Influenced by French and Italian painting and engraving, Hogarth's works are mostly satirical caricatures, sometimes bawdily sexual, mostly of the first rank of realistic portraiture. They became widely popular in his lifetime, and he was by far the most significant English artist of his generation. About the lithography’s This series of 6 graphics are based on ‘A Harlot’s Progress’. The series shows the story of a young women, M. Hackabout, who arrives in London from the country and becomes a prostitute. In the first scene, an old woman praises her beauty and suggests a profitable occupation. A gentleman is shown towards the back of the image. In the second image she is with two lovers: a mistress. In the third she has become a prostitute as well as arrested, she is beating hemp in Bridewell Prison in the fourth. In the fifth scene she is dying from venereal disease, and she is dead at age 23 in the last.

Dimensions:

Height: 55 in (139.7 cm)Width: 75 in (190.5 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)

Materials and Techniques:

Paper,Hand-Painted

Place of Origin:

Europe

Period:

20th Century

Date of Manufacture:

Unknown

Condition:

Wear consistent with age and use.