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The amazing web site of Shakespeare's Sonnets. The Harlot's Progress. IV. The Harlot in Bridewell, by Hogarth.
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PICTURE GALLERY.
William Hogarth 1697 - 1764.
The
Harlot's Progress. Plate IV. The Harlot in Bridewell.
1732.
| Moll
has been sentenced to hard labour in Bridewell, a notorious prison of
the time. She has to beat hemp with a mallet, a process used for
producing rope. She is clearly not appropriately dressed for this
task. The prison warder directs her to continue working, while
his one eyed wife steals a bit of Moll's lace collar from her dress.
To Moll's right there is a card sharp, two other women and what
appears to be a Down's syndrome child.
Then a supposedly pregnant black woman, also beating
hemp. Probably Hogarth intends to depict the horror of these
places, with all manner of impoverished and depraved humanity swept up
and confined to the mercy of cruel warders and meaningless correction.
Moll's pox ridden maid seems to be trying on Moll's shoes with
great delight. On the wall there is an image of Sir John Gonson
strung up on the gallows. |
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| The Harlot's Progress. Plate V. The Death. | The Harlot's Progress. Plate VI. The Funeral. |
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