DETAILS
- Artist
- William Hogarth
- Date
- 1725
- Medium
- Etching and engraving
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- Plate: 7 5/8 x 9 7/16 in. (19.3 x 24 cm)
- Collection
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1966
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