Gallery›Wellcome Collection›Dressed in fine clothes Moll Hackabout beats hemp with a mallet, which will be used to make rope; she is in prison with other inmates who are mostly prostitutes. Engraving after William Hogarth.
Dressed in fine clothes Moll Hackabout beats hemp with a mallet, which will be used to make rope; she is in prison with other inmates who are mostly prostitutes. Engraving after William Hogarth.
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Dressed in fine clothes Moll Hackabout beats hemp with a mallet, which will be used to make rope; she is in prison with other inmates who are mostly prostitutes. Engraving after William Hogarth.

William Hogarth

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Lettering: Harlot's progress. plate VI. in Bridewell beating hemp. dans le maison de correction a battre le chanvre. invented & painted by Wm Hogarth.

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