Prison room with barred window and figures at a table, engraving

An eighteenth-century engraving of a crowded prison room with a barred window, a canopied bed, and a seated woman holding a small child. Several men gather around a table at center, one holding papers, while a figure at right looks on from the barred doorway.

Artist

William Hogarth (eigenhandig gesigneerd)

Date

1735

Medium

Source

Rijksmuseum

Size

4000 × 3182 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam