"A fat old woman leans back in an armchair, her left leg thrust forward. She pulls up her petticoat to display the bare leg, on which is a running sore, to an aged doctor (right), who bends over it, holding his spectacles to his eyes. Her desperate pl...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Prostitution, Skin, Diseases, Courtesans, Physicians, Candles, Eyeglasses, and Obesity
"A naked, bald, and grotesquely obese man stands on the tips of his toes about to plunge, or rather topple, into a bath, in which he admires, Narcissus-like, his own absurd reflection. He is poised on a platform projecting over the bath; behind him st...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 6, 1803, by R. Ackermann, N. 101 Strand, London
Subject (Name):
Narcissus (Greek mythological character),
Subject (Topic):
Prostitution, Public baths, Obesity, Therapeutic baths, Bathing, Nudes, and Signs (Notices)
A copy in reverse of William Hogarth's Plate 4 of A harlot's progress: A scene in Bridewell prison with Moll Hackabout and the other inmates beating hemp under the supervision of a stern warder holding a cane. Moll is still dressed in her finery, but ...
Alternative Title:
Harlot's progress. Plate 4, In Bridewell beating hemp, and Dans la maison de correction a battre le chanvre
A 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 ...
Alternative Title:
Harlot's progress. Plate 5, In a high salivation at the point of death, and Elle meurt en passant par le grand-reméde
Description:
Title in English and French engraved below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Misaubin, Jean, 1673-1734. and Rock, Richard, 1690-1777.
A copy in reverse of William Hogarth's Plate 1 of A harlot's progress: A scene outside the Bell Inn: a country girl, Moll Hackabout, having just arrived on the York Wagon (seen on the right), meets an extravagantly dressed bawd (Mother Needham); a cle...
Alternative Title:
Innocence betrayed, or The journey to London and Innocence trahie, ou, Le voyage de Londres
Description:
Title in English and French engraved below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Needham, Elizabeth, -1731. and Charteris, Francis, 1675-1732.
Subject (Topic):
Prostitution, Carriages & coaches, City & town life, Clegy, Horses, Lust, Rake's progress, Prostitutes, Signs (Notices), Taverns (Inns), and Young adults
A copy in reverse of William Hogarth's Plate 3 of A harlot's progress: In a shabby room in Drury Lane; Moll Hackabout is shown having risen late (the watch shows 11:45), attended by a serving-woman who has lost part of her nose to syphilis; in the ba...
Alternative Title:
Harlot's progress. Plate 3, Compleat trull at her lodgings in Drury Lane, and Elle est reduite à la misère dans son logement de Drury Lane
