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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M20085
People
William Hogarth, British (London 1697 - 1764 London)
Title
Quack Doctors Visit the Diseased Harlot
Other Titles
Alternate Title: A Harlot's Progress, Plate 5.
Series/Book Title: A Harlot's Progress
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
c. 1732
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/231375

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
plate: 31.9 x 39 cm (12 9/16 x 15 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • collector's mark: verso, lower left, black ink: collector's mark with the letters R and K combined
  • inscription: recto, lower text margin, engraving, in artist's hand: Hogarth added a Latin cross to the plate after the first edition was printed in 1732

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
iii/iii
Edition
not from first edition of 1732
Standard Reference Number
P. 125, BM Sat. 2091

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Ralph Kirkpatrick
Object Number
M20085
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Edouard Kopp, Elizabeth M. Rudy, and Kristel Smentek, ed., Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2022), pp. 197-198, repr. p. 198 as fig. 2

Verification Level

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