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In a high saliuation at the point of death
Title
In a high saliuation at the point of death [graphic] / Hogarth invt. et pinxt.
Publication
[London] : [Wm. Hogarth], [1732]
Physical Description
1 print : etching and engraving ; plate mark 32.5 x 37 cm, on sheet 33.5 x 38 cm
Medium
wove paper.
Notes
Title from caption below image.
Date from Paulson.
In margin lower left: Plate 5.
Verses engraved below image, in two columns, four lines each: Disease, the nat'rals consequence, of wall'wing in Concupiscences, Flies through her viens with poisnous rage; No Med'cine can its fire asswage ; Yet blund'ring Quacks prescribe her Physick, Fit only for a horse that is Sick, While of her life they all despair, The Nurse is robbing her young heir.
Pencil note with print: 1re tirage.
Summary
In a squalid room Moll Hackabout, wrapped in a sheet, is dying while two doctors (Richard Rock and Jean Misaubin) argue over their remedies. Her serving-woman reaches out to them in alarm to get their attention for the invalid, while another woman rifles through Moll's portmanteau (with her initials as in Plate 1). A small boy kneeling next to Moll's chair scratches his head as he turns a joint of meat roasting in front of the fire while a pot overflows on the grate. An over-turned table with an advertisement "Practical scheme ... 'Anodyne" litters the floor in the foreground.
Variant and related titles
In a high salivation at the point of death
Harlot's progress. Plate 5
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 03, 2024
Subjects
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1732.
Engravings - England - London - 1732.
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