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About two dozen men and women, almost all with pale skin, gather in a room with high, stone walls, with bars over the windows and iron manacles and chains hanging from the wall to our right in this horizontal painting. Most of the people are men, and many wear knee-length, long sleeved jackets, breeches, and stockings, and some wear white wigs. Three men and two women create a loose line across the stone floor, close to us. Near the center, a man stands wearing a coral-red coat with gold-colored buttons, navy-blue breeches, white stockings, buckled, black shoes, and a black tricorn hat. He…

A Scene from The Beggar's Opera

William Hogarth (English, 1697 - 1764)

1728/1729 · oil on canvas

National Gallery of Art · Paul Mellon Collection

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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