Moll Hackabout, dressed in fine clothes, is beating hemp, used for making rope, with a mallet, in a prison with other inmates who are mostly prostitutes. Engraving by William Hogarth.

Wellcome Collection

Moll Hackabout, dressed in fine clothes, is beating hemp, used for making rope, with a mallet, in a prison with other inmates who are mostly prostitutes. Engraving by William Hogarth.

William Hogarth

RightsCC0 — Public Domain

CollectionWellcome Collection

Lettering: Plate 4. Wm Hogarth invt. pinxt et sculpt.

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