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The amazing web site of Shakespeare's Sonnets. The Harlot's Progress. II. The Jew, the Mistress and the Lover, by Hogarth.
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William Hogarth 1697 - 1764.
The
Harlot's Progress. Plate II. The Jew, the Mistress
and the Lover.
1732.
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second scene Moll is clearly well established and her benefactor is a
kindly wealthy Jew who dotes on her. (It is not clear why we
should identify hin as a Jew but the conmmentaries seem to name him as
such). He is the one who has provided the rich setting in
which she now lives, waited on by a black servant and with a monkey as
a pet. She is a kept woman, but she also entertains other
lovers, one of whom happens to be with her when her protector arrives
for tea. In order to distract attention so that the lover can
escape unheeded, she kicks over the costly table breaking the china on
it. The maid complicitly helps the lover to escape.
Tea sipped from porcelain tea bowls was an expensive luxury of
the time which few could afford, and Hogarth is probably satirising the
extravagance of the merchant class.
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| The Harlot's Progress. Plate V. The Death. | The Harlot's Progress. Plate VI. The Funeral. |
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