Back سيرة العاهرة Arabic A Harlot’s Progress German La carrera de una prostituta Spanish La Carrière d'une prostituée French La carriera di una prostituta Italian A Harlot's Progress Portuguese Карьера проститутки Russian Історія повії Ukrainian
A Harlot's Progress (also known as The Harlot's Progress) is a series of six paintings (1731, now destroyed)[1] and engravings (1732)[2] by the English artist William Hogarth. The series shows the story of a young woman, M. (Moll or Mary) Hackabout, who arrives in London from the country and becomes a prostitute. The series was developed from the third image. After painting a prostitute in her boudoir in a garret on Drury Lane, Hogarth struck upon the idea of creating scenes from her earlier and later life. The title and allegory are reminiscent of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress.
In the first scene, an old woman praises her beauty and suggests a profitable occupation. A gentleman is shown towards the back of the image. In the second image she is with two lovers: a mistress, in the third she has become a prostitute as well as arrested, she is beating hemp in Bridewell Prison in the fourth. In the fifth scene she is dying from venereal disease, and she is dead at age 23 in the last.