The distressed poet. An angry milkmaid is collecting money from the poet's abode. Engraving by T. Cook after W. Hogarth.

  • Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
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1. Oct. 1797
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39164i
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The distressed poet. An angry milkmaid is collecting money from the poet's abode. Engraving by T. Cook after W. Hogarth. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The poet neglects his wife and baby and spends money on a sword and a wig. Nemesis is shown in the form of the scolding milkmaid and the dog who steals the meat chop.

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London (Paternoster Row) : G.G. & J. Robinson, 1. Oct. 1797.

Physical description

1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 31 x 38.7 cm

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Lettering

Studious he sate, with all his books around, sinking from thought to thought, a vast profound! Plunge'd for his sense, but found... Lettering continues:...no bottom there; then writ, and flounder'd on, in mere despair. Dunciad Book I line III Designed by W. Hogarth engraved by T. Cook Lettering within the print: the poet is writing "Poverty a poem", the "Grubstreet Journall" lies on the floor and the print on the wall reads "Pope's letters veni vidi vici 1735 the curl"

References note

R. Paulson, Hogarth's graphic works, 3 ed., London 1989, pp. 101-102 [145]

Reference

Wellcome Collection 39164i

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