Interior with a milkmaid demanding payment from a poet and his wife, The Distrest Poet (title on object), Sober interior with a woman who looks up in shock at the milkmaid in the doorway. There is a crying baby in the bed. A man sits at a table, working on a poem called "Riches a Poem." Above his head hangs a map with the title 'A view of the Gold Mines of Peru'. There are several written sheets of paper in front of the table., print maker: William Hogarth, after own design by: William Hogarth, publisher: William Hogarth, London, 1736 and/or Dec-1740, paper, etching

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