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SYMHC Classics: William Hogarth

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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A Harlot's Progress by John Hogarth

The series, like a harlot's progress, was painted in oil first and then adapted as a set of print engravings. The rake in this narrative is tom rakewell, a young man of leisure. By the time the viewer sees tom in the third scene, he has fully descended into a life of debauchery. In hogarth's works on morality, even though sexual situations are conveyed, there's no nudity, but there is the suggestion of it.

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