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Plate 4 from “A Harlot’s Progress” - Image 1
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William Hogarth

Plate 4 from “A Harlot’s Progress”

1731

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William Hogarth

Plate 4 from “A Harlot’s Progress”

1731

Physical Qualities Etching and engraving, Sheet (each): 436 x 562 mm. (17 3/16 x 22 1/8 in.) Plate: 317 x 390 mm. (12 1/2 x 15 3/8 in.) Image (each): 214 x 155 mm. (8 7/16 x 6 1/8 in.)
Credit Line Purchased as the gift of the Print, Drawing & Photograph Society; and Print and Drawing Acquisition Fund
Object Number 2009.179.4
2nd edition published by Hogarth at end of 1744
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2009; Susan Schulman and Carolyn Bullard
Print by Print: Series from Dürer to Lichtenstein
Nancy Patz, "William Hogarth: For Mature Audiences Only," "Newsletter: The Print, Drawing & Photograph Society of The Baltimore Museum of Art," Fall 2010, vol. 28, no. 2, p. 4, ill.

Inscribed: Recto: in plate, at lower left: "Plate 4"; in plate, at lower center: "†"; in plate, at lower right: "Wm Hogarth invt. pinxt. et sculpt."; at lower right, in graphite: "5 [written sideways]" Verso: none

Markings: None

Artist

William Hogarth

1696–1763

English, 1697-1764
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