Gallery›Wellcome Collection›A prostitute gives evidence to a magistrate: she points towards Tom Idle dividing loot with his accomplice, as a corpse is being disposed of through a trapdoor. Engraving by Thomas Cook, 1795, after William Hogarth.
A prostitute gives evidence to a magistrate: she points towards Tom Idle dividing loot with his accomplice, as a corpse is being disposed of through a trapdoor. Engraving by Thomas Cook, 1795, after William Hogarth.
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A prostitute gives evidence to a magistrate: she points towards Tom Idle dividing loot with his accomplice, as a corpse is being disposed of through a trapdoor. Engraving by Thomas Cook, 1795, after William Hogarth.

William Hogarth · 1795

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Lettering: The idle 'prentice betray'd by his whore, & taken in a night cellar with his accomplice. plate 9. design'd by W Hogarth. engrav'd by T. Cook. Proverbs chap: VI ve: 26. The adultress will hunt for the precious life

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