A pen and ink tracing of a published print, in reverse. Night scene, a couple interrupted in flagrante by the night watch, she lying on the ground at left with dishevelled clothing, he held back on the right, with his breeches undone; a censorious old woman on the right; a watchman on the left holding up a lantern, illuminating the pillory behind
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Title, statement of responsibility, and publication traced from print: Mr. Hogarth invt. T. Fielding sculp. Augst. 17, 1746 publish'd according to act of Parlmet. Price 6d., Questionable attribution to Hogarth. See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 245., and On page 180 in volume 2.