A Harlot's Progress, Plate 3 (BM 1872,1214.328)
Summary
Copy of a shabby room in Drury Lane; Moll is rising late, attended by a serving-woman who has lost part of her nose to syphilis; in the background, the magistrate, John Gonson, enters quietly with officers to arrest her; pinned to the window frame are prints of Captain Mackheath (the hero of "The Beggar's Opera") and Dr Sacheverell (the High Anglican clergyman impeached in 1710), the hat-box of James Dalton, highwayman, rests above the bed, and one of several beer tankards on the floor carries the name of a local tavern; after Hogarth.
Etching and engraving
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Date
1600 - 1700
Source
British Museum
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Public Domain