The characters are marked with the hand of a Master. Our young Heroine is exhibited in this Plate as the mistress of a rich Jew. The Harlot's Progress II - Quarrels with her Jew Protector (HD download) Rouquet, the enameller, a Swiss of French extraction (who published in 1746 a French commentary on several of Hogarth's Prints), has a whimsical remark relative to the Clergyman just arrived in London, "Cet Ecclesiastique monté sur un cheval blanc, comme ils affectent ici de l’etre." "Ī note on this passage says, "she was a matron of great fame, and very religious in her way whose constant prayer it was, that she might get enough by her profession to leave it off in time, and make her peace with God: but her fate was not so happy for, being convicted and set in the pillory, she was (to the lasting shame of all her great friends and votaries) so ill used by the populace, that it put an end to her days. "To Needham's, quick, the voice triumphal rode, But pious Needham dropt the name of God. In the centre is seen an infamous woman, whose memory is thus perpetuated in the Dunciad: This last is said to represent Antony Henley also. In this Plate is a Portrait of the notorious Colonel Chartres and behind him is John Gourlay, a pimp, whom he always kept about his person. This introductory scene is supposed to be laid at the Bull Inn, in Wood-street and the Heroine to be the daughter of the old Clergyman, who is reading the direction of a letter, close by the waggon from which she has just alighted.
The Harlot's Progress I - Ensnared by a Procuress (HD download) Steevens, and the accurate observations of Mr. The remarks, however, of every preceding Commentator have been consulted: particularly the acute criticisms of Mr. Walpole, "the nobleman's dining-room, the apartments of the husband and wife in Marriage à-la-mode, the alderman's parlour, the bed-chamber, and many others, are the history of the manners of the age."Īs the Plates now before the Reader had the advantage of being improved by Hogarth's latest thoughts, it is not necessary to enter into a minute detail of their progressive variations, though some of them will occasionally be noticed. One of these excellences consisted in what may be termed the furniture of his pieces for, as in sublime and historical representations the fewer trivial circumstances are permitted to divide the spectator's attention from the principal figures, the greater is their force so in scenes copied from familiar life, a proper variety of little domestic images contributes to throw a degree of verisimilitude on the whole.
Nor was the success of Hogarth confined to his persons. A book like this is fitted to every soil and every observer and he that runs may read. This was painting to the understanding and to the heart none had ever before made the pencil subservient to the purposes of morality and instruction. He launches out his young adventurer, a simple girl, upon the town, and conducts her through all the vicissitudes of wretchedness to a premature death. What Du Bos wished to see done, Hogarth performed.
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The ingenious Abbe Du Bos has often complained, that no History-painter of his time went through a series of actions and thus, like an Historian, painted the successive fortunes of an hero, from the cradle to the grave. The incidents have a striking resemblance to "The Andrian" of Terence a circumstance it may be sufficient here barely to notice, as it has been most elaborately illustrated by the learned Author of the "Clavis Hogarthiana." Her variety of wretchedness forms such a picture of the way in which Vice rewards her votaries, as ought to warn the young and inexperienced from entering this path of infamy." The story commences with her arrival in London, where, initiated in the school of profligacy, she experiences the miseries consequent to her situation, and dies in the morning of life. "This series of Prints gives the History of a Prostitute. These were usually printed off with red ink, three compartments on one side, and three on the other. Fan-mounts were likewise engraved, containing miniature representations of all the Six Plates. It was made into a pantomime by Theophilus Cibber and again represented on the stage, under the title of "The Jew decoyed, or a Harlot's Progress," in a ballad opera. Above twelve hundred names were entered in the subscription-book. The familiarity of the subject, and the propriety of its execution, made The Harlot's Progress tasted by all ranks of people. Passing over for the present the minor productions of our Artist's pencil, and reserving his Illustrations of Hudibras for a future page it is proper to observe, that in 1733 Hogarth's genius became conspicuously known.
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