A scene outside the Bell Inn in which a country girl, Moll Hackabout, just arrived on the York Wagon, meets an extravagantly dressed bawd (Mother Needham); a clergyman on horseback fails to notice the encounter, but a lecherous old gentleman (Colonel Charteris) eyes the girl with anticipation. In the lower right the girl's initials "M.H." (M[ary?] Hackabout) are on her portmanteau, next to which is a basket with a goose with a note around its neck, "For my Loving Cosen in Tems Stret in London", presumably the person who has failed to meet her. In the background a woman hangs out her laundry on a balcony
Description:
Title engraved below image., State, publisher, and date from Paulson., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On page 58 in volume 1. With pencilled ms. notes in Steevens hand above print: Harlot's Progress 1st Impression. Plate trimmed to: 31 x 38.4 cm.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Charteris, Francis, 1675-1732.
Subject (Topic):
Prostitution, Carriages & coaches, City & town life, Clegy, Horses, Lust, Parables, Prostitutes, Signs (Notices), Taverns (Inns), and Young adults
A scene outside the Bell Inn in which a country girl, Moll Hackabout, just arrived on the York Wagon, meets an extravagantly dressed bawd (Mother Needham); a clergyman on horseback fails to notice the encounter, but a lecherous old gentleman (Colonel Charteris) eyes the girl with anticipation. In the lower right the girl's initials "M.H." (M[ary?] Hackabout) are on her portmanteau, next to which is a basket with a goose with a note around its neck, "For my Loving Cosen in Tems Stret in London", presumably the person who has failed to meet her. In the background a woman hangs out her laundry on a balcony
Description:
Title engraved below image., State, publisher, and date from Paulson., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Charteris, Francis, 1675-1732.
Subject (Topic):
Prostitution, Carriages & coaches, City & town life, Clegy, Horses, Lust, Parables, Prostitutes, Signs (Notices), Taverns (Inns), and Young adults