Where to See A Harlot's Progress, plate 2: British Museum

William Hogarth created A Harlot's Progress as a series showing a young woman's moral decline. Plate 2 shows her as a kept woman. Hogarth used narrative art to critique society.

These prints influenced social commentary in art. This work is at the British Museum in London.

You can see it at British Museum in London, United Kingdom. William Hogarth created it. Plate 2 shows her as a kept woman.

William Hogarth made this moral narrative series You can see it at British Museum. Plate 2 shows her as a kept woman.

It's a series of six engravings telling the moral downfall of a young woman in London. Hogarth used satirical narrative art to comment on 18th-century English society, vice, and corruption.

A Harlot's Progress, plate 2

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