A Harlot's Progress: Quarrels with her Jewish Protector
William Hogarth (London 1697 - London 1764)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1732 - 1755
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
489 x 565 mm (19 1/4 x 22 1/4 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Ascott Estate, Buckinghamshire
NT 1535135
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A Harlot's Progress: Quarrels with her Jewish Protector, after William Hogarth (London 1697 - London 1764). A copy of the second episode of the engraving of A Harlot's Progress. Mary ('Moll' Hackabout provokes a quarrel with her Jewish protector and to distract his attention from the escape of her lover by the door at the back of the room, kicks over a tea-table; a child servant stands beside her at the right; her maid escorts her lover from the room. The series was engraved by Hogarth and published in 1732. The original oil paintings were sold by Hogarth to Alderman Beckford in 1745 and are all generally supposed to have perished in the Fonthill fire of 1755, although the fire-damaged original reappeared at auction in 1991. The pictures on the wall at the back of the room are of Bathsheba and Lot and his Daughters.
Provenance
James Caulfeild, 1st Earl of Charlemont (1728-1799) by 1798 and in family still 1867; not in Charlemont sale 1874; but with Leopold de Rothschild by 1875; given to the National Trust by Anthony de Rothschild (1887- 1961) with the house in 1949
Credit line
Ascott, The Anthony de Rothschild Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
William Hogarth (London 1697 - London 1764), artist
References
Ascott, Buckinghamshire, Scala, 2008 by John Martin Robinson and others [pictures entries by Karin Wolfe on basis of Gore entries, 1963 with contributions from Alastair Laing] , no.46 Ireland 1798, J. Ireland, Hogarth Illustrated, 1798, III, p, 337, note Nichols 1833, J. B. Nichols, Anecdotes of Hogarth, 1833, p. 353 Stephens 1877, F. G. Stephens, Satirical Prints in the British Museum, 1877, III, p. 27 Dobson 1907, A. Dobson, Hogarth, 1907, p. 331