In a squalid room Moll Hackabout, wrapped in a sheet, is attended by her two physicians (Richard Rock and Jean Misaubin) argue over their remedies. Her serving-woman reaches out to them in alarm to get their attention for the invalid, while another woman rifles through Moll's portmanteau (with her initials as in Plate 1). A small boy knelling next to Moll's chair scratches his head as he turns a joint of meat roasting in front of the fire while a pot overflows on the grate. An over-turned table with an advertisement "Practical scheme ... 'Anodyne" litters the floor in the foreground
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Publisher, date, and state from Paulson., State before addition of black Latin cross added to center below design. See Paulson., "Plate 5"--Lower left corner., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Misaubin, Jean, 1673-1734. and Rock, Richard, 1690-1777.
