Engraving by British artist & engraver, William Hogarth 1697-1764: The distressed poet 1737. This Plate describes, in the strongest colours, the distress of an author without friends to patronise him. Seated upon the side of his bed, without a shirt, but wrapped in an old night-gown, he is now spinning a poem upon aEuRiches:aEu of their use 18th century

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