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| Title |
A Harlot's Progress Plate V, The Death of the Harlot
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| Artist |
William Hogarth |
| Date |
1732 (reprinted c. 1822) |
| Medium |
Etching and engraving |
| Location |
The Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections,
Northwestern University |
Moll is dying of syphilis, a disease that threatened the profession
of prostitution in the eighteenth century. Depicted in head covering
and robe reminiscent of images of the Virgin Mary, Moll commands
our sympathy. Her cold-hearted landlady-another working woman-joins
the tax collectors to claim her share from the dying harlot.
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