A history of English sexual morals / by Ivan Bloch ; translated by William H. Forstern.

  • Iwan Bloch
Date:
1936
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Credit: A history of English sexual morals / by Ivan Bloch ; translated by William H. Forstern. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Access and Hogarth sold 12,000 sets within a short time, addition, the ' Harlot's Progress' was copied on to coffee ps, parasols and fans, and Theophilus Cibber even pro- iced a pantomime on the subject. The first etching of the ries represents the heroine, Mary Hackabout, and her lay- •eacher father at the moment of their arrival in London, here they are received by ' Colonel' Charters, one of the ost notorious procurers and brothel keepers of the eigh- >enth century, his assistant John Gourlay, who acts as his Lit, and an elegantly dressed procuress, in whom Hogarth believed to have portrayed the notorious ' Mother eedham', who kept a brothel in Park Place. With the d of this woman the girl is lured to Charters' house. In le second etching Mary appears as the mistress of a rich inker, in the act of helping a secret lover to escape from dv bedroom on the unexpected arrival of the banker. In le third etching we see Mary in a miserable garret in ►rury Lane, with a representative of the law come to rrest her for the theft of a watch. The fourth etching lows the prostitute in her prison cell after she had been 3ntenced to be ' privately whipped ' and to serve a term of ard labour. In the fifth etching Mary is seen dead, and re gather the cause of her death from the apparatus for a lercury cure that is lying near her. The sixth and last tching shows Mary in her coffin, surrounded by a group of >rostitutes and a few men of sinister aspect. Other famous Hogarthian series are ' The Rake's Pro- gress ' and 'Marriage a la Mode', both of which depict the corrupt morals of the age. That Hogarth did not recoil rom a brutally plain representation of obscenity is proved 3y the ninth page of 'Industry and Idleness', where a grenadier is seen drawing a male genital organ on the wall. The cartoon has nourished in England since the seventeenth century. Its popularity began at the time [635]