A harlot's progress. In a high salivation at the point of death = Elle meurt en passant par le grand-reméde / [graphic] : Plate V[not before 25 March 1768]engfreA copy in reverse of William Hogarth's Plate 5 of A harlot's progress: In a squalid room Moll Hackabout, wrapped in a sheet, is dying while two doctors (Richard Rock and Jean Misaubin) argue over their remedies. Her serving-woman reaches out to them in alarm to get their attention for the invalid, while another woman rifles through Moll's portmanteau (with her initials as in Plate 1). A small boy knelling next to Moll's chair scratches his head as he turns a joint of meat roasting in front of the fire while a pot overflows on the grate. An over-turned table with an advertisement "Practical scheme ... 'Anodyne" litters the floor in the foregroundTitle in English and French engraved below image.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).Copy of Hogarth's original plate, engraved in reverse as per the piracy published by Elisha Kirkall in 1732.Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2092.Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 125.