HARLOTS PROGRESS SERIES
First appearing as a series of paintings, it was then reproduced as engraved prints. A Harlots Progress is an opera in six scenes by the British composer Iain Bell which is based on William Hogarth s series of etchings of the same name. Much of the story is a twice-told tale – grounded in the original etchings and research – but much of it is my own vision, my own details, my own dialogue. William Hogarth’s A Harlot’s Progress charts the unfortunate fall of the likeable Moll Hackabout from pretty young ingnue to prostitute after her arrival in London. What follows is the result of my research. Duke Library, surprised to find a wealth of academic writing about “The Harlot’s Progress.” In an attempted change of pace, however, I endeavored not to write an analysis of Hogarth as an artist, but to write the story of Moll Hackabout in my own style, drawing directly from the resources at hand. Intrigued by the name, the story, and the style, I perused the James B. Hogarth drew extensively from reality – some of the characters his series are candidly based on real people, and the narrative pulled from infamous tales of harlots, bawds, and rakes. The artist, William Hogarth, was an 18th century English painter, a satirist, influenced by French style engravings. A series of six etchings, “The Harlot’s Progress” is a single story – the tale of a young girl, Moll Hackabout, gone to London and the hardships that follow her there. It brings to life London and how people lived in the capital at that time, with all its degradation and deprivation, very vividly with excellent. Beyond differences in poetic strategy, moreover, the novels paradigmatically reveal distinct ideologies: their politics of memory variously promote an encompassing transcultural sense of responsibility, an aestheticist ‘creative amnesia’, and the need to preserve a collective ‘black’ identity.This project was birthed from an accident, when, searching for 17th century engravings of Diana and Minerva, I found the “The Harlot’s Progress” nestled at the bottom of a box in the Special Collections and Archives. Superb production that uses Hogarths Harlots Progress as the basis upon which to tell the story of Hogarths rise to fame and fortune as Britains foremost artist and cartoonist of the 18th Century. Toni Morrison’s Beloved, finally, is steeped in black music, from spirituals and blues to the art of John Coltrane. David Dabydeen’s A Harlot’s Progress approaches slavery through the gateway of paintings by William Hogarth, Sir Joshua Reynolds and J.M.W. Novelists may choose to write back to texts, images or music: Caryl Phillips’s Cambridge brings together numerous fragments of slave narratives, travelogues and histories to shape a brilliant montage of long-forgotten texts. Each reading illustrates a particular poetic strategy of accessing the past and presents a distinct political outlook on memory. Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932. Medium: Etching and engraving first state of three. It sets out to chart systematically the ways in which literature and memory intersect, and offers readings of three seminal Black Atlantic novels. Artist: William Hogarth (British, London 16971764 London) Date: before April 1732. Credit Line: Gift of Sarah Lazarus, 1891.
Medium: Etching and engraving fourth state of four. In this series, we meet the fresh faced Moll Hackabout as she arrives for the first time in London. Artist: William Hogarth (British, London 16971764 London) Date: April 1732. The first example of these prints, which Hogarth himself termed ‘modern moral subjects’, was A Harlot’s Progress.
Medium: Etching and engraving third state of three. This book is concerned with how literature performs as memory. William Hogarth, A Harlot's Progress, plate 1, 1732, etching with engraving on paper, 31.4 x 38 cm. Artist: William Hogarth (British, London 16971764 London) Date: April 1732. William Hogarth, played by Toby Jones ('Harry Potter', 'Captain America'), recalls the life and death of an alluring and mysterious woman he once knew. One of Hogarths best known morality tales, it illustrates the story of Moll Hackabout, a girl from the countryside who travels to London to visit her cousin but is quickly swallowed up in a world of prostitution. Recently, however, fiction writers have ventured to ‘re-member’ the Black Atlantic. A Harlots Progress Follow the life of a beautiful, troubled prostitute in this drama. This is the first of six plates from William Hogarths engraved series A Harlots Progress. There is a prevailing desire to forget: While victims of the African diaspora tried to flee the sites of trauma, enlightened Westerners preferred to be oblivious to the discomforting complicity between their enlightenment and chattel slavery. The Atlantic slave trade continues to haunt the cultural memories of Africa, Europe and the Americas.
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