The Distressed Poet (BM 1868,0808.12392)

Copy of an untidy garret with a man in a dressing-gown working on a poem entitled 'Riches a Poem' while his wife is confronted by a milkmaid with a lengthy tally who demands payment; a baby in bed is crying; a dog eats meat from a plate on a chair; behind the poet's head is a map titled 'A View of the Gold mines of Peru'; after Hogarth.
Engraving and etching