A room in the Fleet Prison. Tom sits at a table while his wife clenches her fists and the jailer asks for garnish money. To left, Sarah Young has fainted and is being administered smelling salts by one woman while another slaps her hand, her child clings to her skirt.
Paulson, Ronald. "Hogarth's Graphic Works." The Print Room, 1989, London.
Notes (object):
The seventh plate of the A Rake's Progress series. Plate based on "The Prison," a painting by Hogarth. Fourth state. The whole of the floor and other details crosshatched.
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