A Harlot's Progress is a series of six scenes by the English artist William Hogarth, painted in 1731 and issued as engravings in 1732, following the fictional Moll Hackabout from her arrival in London from the countryside through life as a kept woman, then a street prostitute, imprisonment at Bridewell, illness, and death at the age of twenty three. The original paintings were destroyed in a fire at Fonthill House in 1755, but the engravings were reproduced widely and survive in multiple collections, making the series one of the most influential of Hogarth's moralizing narrative sequences.
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Introduction
series of six paintings (1731, now destroyed) and engravings (1732)
History
The original paintings were destroyed in a fire at Fonthill House in 1755
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A Harlot's Progress is a series of six scenes by the English artist William Hogarth, painted in 1731 and issued as engravings in 1732, following the fictional Moll Hackabout from her arrival in London from the countryside through life as a kept woman, then a street prostitute, imprisonment at Bridewell, illness, and death at the age of twenty three.
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