DETAILS
- Artist
- William Hogarth
- Date
- 1700
- Medium
- Etching
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 6 3/4 × 5 1/2 in. (17.1 × 14 cm)
- Collection
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Gift of Bella C. Landauer, 1926
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