About this artwork
Hogarth engraved these six copper plates (1964.254–59) with a burin, a sharp metal tool used to incise swelling lines directly into a flattened copper surface. He worked in reverse of the final printed images, which were produced by inking the plates and running them through a roller press with dampened sheets of paper on top. The small cross at the bottom of each plate was added when Hogarth issued the second state, released over a decade after the first, much copied edition. The prints on view nearby are early second state impressions, made before the addition of other changes and noticeable wear.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- William Hogarth
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Title
- Plate six, from A Harlot's Progress
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Place
- England (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- Made 1732
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Medium
- Copperplate
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Dimensions
- 31.6 × 39 cm (12 1/2 × 15 3/8 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Edison Dick
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Reference Number
- 1964.259
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/132531/manifest.json
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