A young man with an exhausted expression after sex pulls on his breeches beside a woman who gazes up at him and holds his arm; on the wall is an image of Cupid pointing to a downward-pointing rocket. Engraving by William Hogarth, 1736.
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
- Date:
- Decm:br: ye: 15th 1736
- Reference:
- 38349i
- Part of:
- Before and after
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Left, two paintings of Cupid are inscribed "before" (pointing to a rising rocket) and "after" (pointing to a falling rocket). A book on the floor is inscribed "Aristotle" and "Omne animal post coitum triste". A dog sleeps on the floor, illustrating the quotation from Aristotle
Publication/Creation
[London] : Wm Hogarth, Decm:br: ye: 15th 1736.
Physical description
1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 36.9 x 31 cm.
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Invented engraved & published Decm:br: ye: 15th 1736 by Wm: Hogarth pursuant to an at of parliament.
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[Paulson's state III].
Notes
Forms a pair with Wellcome Library no. 38348i
References note
R. Paulson, Hogarth's graphic works, London 1989, 3rd edition, no. 142
Kirsten Tambling, 'John Thomson, Archibald Grant and William Hogarth's "Before" and "After"', The Burlington magazine, 2019, 161: 300-307
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Wellcome Collection 38349i
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