Morality Collection

A Rakes Progress, Plate 1, June 25, 1735. Creator: William Hogarth
A Rakes Progress, Plate 1, June 25, 1735

A Rakes Progress - 2: The Levee, 1733. Artist: William Hogarth
A Rakes Progress - 2: The Levee, 1733. Tom holds a morning reception at his new palatial town lodgings. Vistors offer their services: a jockey, a dancing-master (with violin)

Masquerades and operas, 1724. Artist: William Hogarth
Masquerades and operas, 1724. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century... With over two hundred illustrations by George Paston [pseudonym of Emily Morse Symonds], (London, 1905)

Death and the Courtesan (Signed by the Wood-Engraver), 1903. Artist: Sebald Beham
Death and the Courtesan (Signed by the Wood-Engraver), 1903. From The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, Volume 1 - March to May 1903. [The Burlington Magazine, Limited, London, 1903]

The Table of Cebes (image 3 of 4), 1592. Creator: Jacob Matham
The Table of Cebes (image 3 of 4), 1592

The Table of Cebes (image 4 of 4), 1592. Creator: Jacob Matham
The Table of Cebes (image 4 of 4), 1592

Plate 11 for Moral and Satiric Content, 1778. Creator: Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki
Plate 11 for Moral and Satiric Content, 1778

Plate 8 for Moral and Satiric Content, 1778. Creator: Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki
Plate 8 for Moral and Satiric Content, 1778

Allegory of Abuses by the Authorities of Church and State, 1570-1580. Creator: Gillis Mostaert
Allegory of Abuses by the Authorities of Church and State, 1570-1580. Alternative title: The Haywain: An Allegory of Worldly and Spiritual Abuses

Florence Crittenden I.E. Crittenton Home - Baby Exhibit, 1914. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Florence Crittenden I.E
Florence Crittenton Home - Baby Exhibit, 1914. Sign: For Rent by the Washington Loan & Trust Co.'. The first Florence Crittenton home, the Florence Night Mission

Un cours de morale moderne, 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Un cours de morale moderne, 19th century. Parisian sketches - A course in modern 19th century morality

An Allegory of the Wise and the Foolish Virgins, 1570. Creator: Hans Ewouts
An Allegory of the Wise and the Foolish Virgins, 1570. The Wise Virgins save the oil for their lamps, while the Foolish Virgins waste it

A Moral Entertainment, Roslyn, NY, 1938. Creator: Unknown
A Moral Entertainment, Roslyn, NY, 1938. The Federal Theatre Project, created by the U.S. Works Progress Administration in 1935, was designed to conserve and develop the skills of theater workers

A Moral Entertainment, Roslyn, NY, 1938. Creator: Unknown
A Moral Entertainment, Roslyn, NY, 1938. The Federal Theatre Project, created by the U.S. Works Progress Administration in 1935, was designed to conserve and develop the skills of theater workers

A Moral Entertainment, Roslyn, NY, 1938. Creator: Unknown
A Moral Entertainment, Roslyn, NY, 1938. The Federal Theatre Project, created by the U.S. Works Progress Administration in 1935, was designed to conserve and develop the skills of theater workers

Fete de l'Etre supreme, (Festival of the Supreme Being) in Champ-de-Mars, c1794. Creator: Pierre-Antoine Demachy
Fete de l'Etre supreme, (Festival of the Supreme Being) in Champ-de-Mars, c1794

The Improvement of Morals, 1786. Creator: Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki
The Improvement of Morals, 1786

The Tulip and the Butterfly Appear in gayer Coats than I, 1832, (1947). Creator: Unknown
The Tulip and the Butterfly Appear in gayer Coats than I, 1832, (1947). Two children, one reading and the other wearing a sheer dress. Illustration to a hymn tilted Against Pride In Clothes

Solon, (c630-c560 BC), 1830. Creator: Unknown
Solon, (c630-c560 BC), 1830. Solon (c630-c560 BC) Athenian statesman, lawmaker and poet who legislated against political, economic and moral decline

Machiavel, (1469-1527), 1830. Creator: Unknown
Machiavel, (1469-1527), 1830. Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) Italian diplomat, politician, historian, philosopher, writer, playwright and poet of the Renaissance

A Rakes Progress - 8: The Mad House, 1733. Artist: William Hogarth
A Rakes Progress - 8: The Mad House, 1733. True to his nature Tom Rakewell has run through a vast fortune through indulgence in all the luxuries of modern living

Nathaniel Hawthorne, ca. 1860-1865. Creator: Unknown
Nathaniel Hawthorne, ca. 1860-1865

Painted Banner (Thangka) of Five Morality Tales from the Avadana Kalpalata Jataka, late 18th century

Study for Vignette in Jean Francois Marmontels "Contes Moraux", c. 1765
Study for Vignette in Jean Francois Marmontels " Contes Moraux", c. 1765

The Awakening Conscience, 1852-1854. Creator: William Holman Hunt
The Awakening Conscience, 1852-1854. A mistress or kept woman and her lover have been playing and singing to Thomas Moores " Oft in the Stilly Night"

Bird and snake, 1570. Creator: Giovanni Maria Verdizotti
Bird and snake, 1570. From Cento Favole Morali (100 moral fables)

Christ and the woman taken in adultery, 1750-57. Creator: Giuseppe Camerata
Christ and the woman taken in adultery, 1750-57. Formerly attributed as being after Bartolomeo Biscaino

Family temperance pledge for Luther Miller Pulce and Irene Jenkins, October 30, 1902
Temperance pledge for Luther Miller Pulce and Irene Jenkins of Centerville, Tennessee. A temperance or abstinence pledge is a commitment to practice abstinence, usually from alcohol

The Nations Prayer Call Vol. 2 No. 4, 1956-1957. Creator: Unknown
Newsletter of " The Nations Prayer Call" from the Zion Baptist Church. The newsletter has two pages total with black printed text on both sides. The paper is yellowed and creased

Tree of Temperance, 1848. Creator: Unknown
Tree of Temperance, 1848

War (The Accusers of Theft, Adultery, Murder), c. 1803 / 1810. Creator: William Blake
War (The Accusers of Theft, Adultery, Murder), c. 1803/1810

The Accusers of Theft, Adultery, Murder (War), c. 1794 / 1796. Creator: William Blake
The Accusers of Theft, Adultery, Murder (War), c. 1794/1796

The Apostle Jean Journet Setting Out for the Conquest of Universal Harmony, 1850. surrounded by verses to be sung by the reader as a moralizing call to change

Cantat Vacuus (Armed Burglar To Mr Brown), 1875. Creator: Charles Samuel Keene
Cantat Vacuus (Armed Burglar To Mr Brown), 1875. the empty-handed traveller will sing in the presence of the robber (a poor man can take comfort he has stolen nothing)

A Rakes Progress, Plate 5, June 25, 1735. Creator: William Hogarth
A Rakes Progress, Plate 5, June 25, 1735

A Rakes Progress, Plate 7, June 25, 1735. Creator: William Hogarth
A Rakes Progress, Plate 7, June 25, 1735

A Rakes Progress, Plate 6, June 25, 1735. Creator: William Hogarth
A Rakes Progress, Plate 6, June 25, 1735

The Idle Prentice Executed at Tyburn: Industry and Idleness, plate 11, September 30, 1747

The Industrious Prentice Grown Rich and Sheriff of London (Industry and Idleness, plate 8), September 30, 1747

The Industrious Prentice Alderman of London, the Idle One Brought Before Him & Impeached by his Accomplice: Industry and Idleness, plate 10, September 30, 1747

The Idle Prentice Betrayed by his Whore and Taken into a Night Cellar with his Accomplice: Industry and Idleness, plate 9, September 30, 1747

The Idle Prentice Returned from Sea and in a Garret with a Common Prostitute: Industry and Idleness, plate 7, September 30, 1747

The Idle Prentice at Play in the Churchyard: Industry and Idleness, plate 3, September 30, 1747

The Industrious Prentice Performing the Duty of a Christian: Industry and Idleness, plate 2, September 30, 1747

The Fellow Prentices at their Looms: Industry and Idleness, plate 1, September 30, 1747

The Idle "Prentice Executed at Tyburn (Industry and Idleness, plate 11)
The Idle " Prentice Executed at Tyburn (Industry and Idleness, plate 11), September 30, 1747

The Industrious Prentice a Favorite, and Entrusted by his Master: Industry and Idleness, plate 4, September 30, 1747

The Idle Prentice Turned Away and Sent to Sea: Industry and Idleness, plate 5, September 30, 1747

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