<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>[Harlot's progress]. [graphic] / Plate 4</dc:title><dc:creator>Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker</dc:creator><dc:date>[April 1732]</dc:date><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:description>A scene in Bridewell prison with Moll Hackabout and the other inmates beating hemp under the supervision of a stern warder holding a cane. Moll is still dressed in her finery, but a one-eyed female attendant fingers the lace lappet hanging from her cap and her serving-woman sits before her in Moll's elegant shoes; next to her a fellow inmate picks vermin off her clothes. Next to Moll is a gambler, a torn playing card on the floor in front of him; behind her, a man stands with his hands in a pillory on which hangs a sign "Better to Work than Stand thus."  Further down the wall is a whipping post with the words "The Wages of Idleness."  On a shudder against the back wall is an effigy of Sir John Gonson ("Sr. J G").</dc:description><dc:description>Title, publisher, date, and state from Paulson.</dc:description><dc:description>State before black Latin cross added in the middle, below design. See Paulson.</dc:description><dc:description>"Plate 4"--Lower left corner.</dc:description><dc:description>Sheet trimmed within plate mark.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>