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...
Alternative Title:
Harlot's progress. Plate 6, Her funeral properly attended, and Pompe de ses funérailles
Description:
Title in English and French engraved below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Prostitution, Children, Clergy, Coffins, Death, Funeral rites & ceremonies, Interiors, Prostitutes, Rake's progress, Seduction, Servants, Syphilis, Undertakers, and Wake services
The coffin of Queen Caroline on a cloth-covered platform over which pallbearers hold an elaborate black canopy is carried down the aisle of church, followed by a minister who lifts his right arm as if speaking from the text in his left hand. To the r...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd by W.B. Walker, 4 Fox & Knot Court, Cow Lane, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
Subject (Topic):
Death and burial, Canopies, Funeral rites & ceremonies, Funeral processions, and Queens
Eleven plain, elderly women walk in a procession from left to right between the tombstones of a country church yard. Two of them, at the head of the procession, carry a small coffin with a cat's effigy on it. Behind them walks a crying woman with a ha...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Published by William Holland at Garrick's, Richard No. 50 Oxford Street
Subject (Topic):
Cats, Cemeteries, Churches, Coffins, Crying, Funeral rites & ceremonies, Single women, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
A group made up mostly of woman gather round the coffin of the harlot in the center of the room. The young boy, the harlot's son, sits beside it on the floor. Many of the women are weeping, but others are engaged in flurtations with the undertaker and...
Alternative Title:
Harlot's progress. Plate 6
Description:
Title from caption above image.
Publisher:
Printed for Iohn Bowles at Mercer's Hall in Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Subject (Topic):
Social life and customs, Funeral rites & ceremonies, and Prostitutes
"Graveside scene at night; a fat vicar swathed in a surplice and looking at a book by the light of a lantern held up by a thin, singing clerk, from whom he also takes some snuff; the open grave to left, the child's coffin beside it, mourners behind, s...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published July 17th, 1795, by I. Coard, No. 11 Lisson Street, Edgware Road
Plate 7. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
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 left, a clergyman spills hi...
Description:
Title, date, publisher, and state from Paulson.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Children, Clergy, Coffins, Death, Funeral rites & ceremonies, Interiors, Prostitutes, Seduction, Servants, Syphilis, Undertakers, and Wake services
