In a lady's bedchamber a young woman struggles as a man pulls her towards him clutching at her dress. Engraving by W. Hogarth, 1736, after himself.
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
- Date:
- Decm:br: ye: 15th 1736
- Reference:
- 38348i
- Part of:
- Before and after
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Before
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Left, a painting of Cupid pointing to a rising rocket, inscribed "Before". On the woman's dressing table is a volume identified by inscriptions as "Rochester's poems", while inside the table drawer are a volume of "Novels" and a volume of "The practice of piety" (Lewis Bayly, The practice of pietie, of which an edition advertised as the 58th was published in 1734). A small dog leaps up, overturing a brazier. On a chair, right, is a corset
Publication/Creation
[London] : Wm Hogarth, Decm:br: ye: 15th 1736.
Physical description
1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 37.3 x 30.6 cm.
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Invented engraved and published Dec:br ye: 15th: 1736 by Wm: Hogarth pursuant to an act of parliament.
Edition
[Paulson's state III].
Notes
Forms a pair with Wellcome Library no. 38349i
References note
R. Paulson, Hogarth's graphic works, London 1989, 3rd edition, no. 141
Kirsten Tambling, 'John Thomson, Archibald Grant and William Hogarth's "Before" and "After"', The Burlington magazine, 2019, 161: 300-307
Reference
Wellcome Collection 38348i
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