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The Harlot's Progress (1733), The Rake's Progress (Ms., ca. 1778-1780)

Note 14 — INTRODUCTION

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Hogarth reversed Laguerre's print, adding the banner "We eat," the label "Pistol's alive" under Theophilus Cibber's feet and the phrase "Quiet and Snug" under Colley Cibber. For descriptions of the rebellion, see John Genest, Some Account of the English Stage from the Restoration in 1660 to 1830, III, Bath: 1832, pp. 415-416, Richard H. Barker, Mr. Cibber of Drury Lane (New York: Columbia University Press, 1939), pp. 168-171, and Arthur Scouten, LS, 3, I, lxxxix-xciii.

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