print; satirical print

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Object Type: print; satirical print
Museum number: Cc,2.91
Title: Object: A Harlot's Progress, Plate 6; Series: A Harlot's Progress
Description: Copy of a dilapidated room with Moll's friends, mostly prostitutes, gathered around her open coffin; to right, a clergyman gropes beneath a woman's skirt, to left, the undertaker pays court to another who picks a handkerchief from his pocket; in the foreground sits Moll's small son playing with a spinning top; after Hogarth. 1732 Etching and engraving
Producer name: After: William Hogarth; Print made by: Giles King
School/style
Production date: 1732
Materials
Technique: etching; engraving
Dimensions: Height: 214 millimetres (cut); Width: 256 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Cut from a large plate of set of three images (Plates 4-6), for which and comment see 1848,0708.22-4.
Bibliographic references: Paulson 1989 / Hogarth's Graphic Works: third edition (126) (copy); Paulson 1965/70 / Hogarth's graphic works: first complete edition (126) (copy); BM Satires / Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (2108)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: satire; funeral/funerary rite; courtesan/prostitute; cleric; undertaker; toy
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1825
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: Cc,2.91
Additional IDs: Other BM number: 1825,0212.37

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