Author: Hogarth, William (1697-1764) After. Engraved by Richard Livesay
Title: Boys Peeping at Nature", "Subscription Ticket to Harlot's Progress" and "Sarah Malcolm
Description: London: Craddock and Barnard, 1837. Three engravings on one sheet, 25 x 19 inches. Few marginal tears. "Sarah Malcolm" is a copy of Paulson, 129. "Boys Peeping at Nature" is a copy of Paulson, 120b. When 22-year-old Sarah Malcolm was arrested for a triple murder in 1733, Hogarth visited her in prison shortly before she was hanged and had a print on the market within three days. By October of that year he had announced his next project, a sequel to the best-selling Harlot's Progress so obviously aimed at exactly the same audience that it would make the most unimaginative producer of Hollywood blockbusters blush: The Rake's Progress. The plates were bought by the publisher Baldwin, Cradock and Joy at the Boydell sale in 1818. The Works of William Hogarth as published by Baldwin, Cradock and Joy in 1822 with the original plates restored by James Heath, engraver to His Majesty. The Heath edition was the last to print directly from Hogarth's original engraved plates. .

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