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A Harlot's Progress (also known as The Harlot's Progress) is a series of six paintings (1731, now destroyed) and engravings (1732) by the English artist William Hogarth. The series shows the story of a young woman, M. (Moll or Mary) Hackabout, who arrives in London from the country and becomes a prostitute.
Six prints, forming the set 'A Harlot's Progress. The six prints telling the cautionary story of Moll Hackabout, a harlot, were published in April 1732, the first of Hogarth’s ‘Modern Moral Subjects’. Hogarth intended the pictures to stand without accompanying text.
Oct 14, 2023 · A Harlot's Progress was a series of engravings (1732) and paintings (1731) in which artist William Hogarth tells the story of Miss Hackabout who moves to London and experiences a trying time. Upon arriving in London from the country she encounters an older woman.
A Harlot's Progress, Plate 1. William Hogarth British. April 1732. Not on view. Set outside the Bell Inn, London. Mary Hackabout, a country girl, has just arrived on the York Wagon and is examined by an extravagantly dressed bawd Mother Needham.
It was found that "A Harlot's Progress," which first appeared in 1732, tells the story of a young woman from the time she arrives in London to the time she dies.
In A Rake’s Progress, everyone from the Queen to the priest that performs his marriage of convenience, to common prostitutes, are part of the problem. But it is not just Hogarth’s ‘take no prisoners’ approach to social commentary that made him so popular.
In a 1732 series of prints, A Harlot’s Progress, William Hogarth highlights the moral weakness and systems of exploitation that he saw at work in 18th-century English society.
