The distressed poet. An angry milkmaid is collecting money from the poet's abode. Engraving by T. Cook after W. Hogarth.

London (Paternoster Row) : G.G. & J. Robinson, 1. Oct. 1797.

1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 31 x 38.7 cm

Studious he sate, with all his books around, sinking from thought to thought, a vast profound! Plunge'd for his sense, but found... Lettering continues:...no bottom there; then writ, and flounder'd on, in mere despair. Dunciad Book I line III Designed by W. Hogarth engraved by T. Cook Lettering within the print: the poet is writing "Poverty a poem", the "Grubstreet Journall" lies on the floor and the print on the wall reads "Pope's letters veni vidi vici 1735 the curl"

R. Paulson, Hogarth's graphic works, 3 ed., London 1989, pp. 101-102 [145]

Wellcome Collection 39164i