LOT 118 AFTER WILLIAM HOGARTH, THE HARLOT'S PROGRESS
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AFTER WILLIAM HOGARTHTHE HARLOT'S PROGRESSOil on canvas30.5 x 37.5cm (12 x 14¾ in.) (6)The Harlot's Progress is a series of six paintings (1731, now destroyed) and engravings (1732) by William Hogarth. The series shows the story of a young woman, M. Hackabout, who arrives in London from the country and becomes a prostitute. The series was developed from the third image, after painting a prostitute in her boudoir in a garret on Drury Lane, Hogarth struck upon the idea of creating scenes from her earlier and later life. 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, in the fourth she is beating hemp in Bridewell Prison. In the fifth scene she is dying from venereal disease, and she is dead at age 23 in the last.zz
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