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William Hogarth: A Harlot's Progress

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A Harlot's Progress, 6

A Harlot's Progress

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WILLIAM HOGARTH
English, 1697-1764
A Harlot’s Progress, 6
etching and engraving, 1732
The William A. Whitaker Foundation Art Fund, 92.6.6 

The plate on Moll's coffin tells us that she was only 23. The funeral, a gathering of her professional colleagues, is a grotesque mixture of grief (fueled by gin) and indifference. The clergyman's female companion has distracted him from his duties and even from his glass of liquor: just where is his other hand? At the right a woman trying on gloves picks the pocket of the man showing them to her.

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