'The Cock-pit', : William Hogarth

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'The Cock-pit', 1759. Cockfighting enthusiasts from a cross-section of society gamble and squabble. The blind Lord Albemarle Bertie (centre) is being robbed by a figure taking a note out of his upturned hat. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century ... With over two hundred illustrations by George Paston [pseudonym of Emily Morse Symonds], (London, 1905).

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