[CARD SHARPERS] RESORTS TO A GAMING TABLE AND IS RUINED BY SHARPERS. [London, 1735]. Hand-colored etching after Plate IV of Hogarth’s Rake’s Progress. The ruined gambler kneels in the foreground, his wig, chair, hat (and presumably dignity) strewn about the room before him, along with a pack of cards, dice, and dice cups. The lengthy rhyming couplets below the image explains the scene. Framed to 19 × 21½". Not examined out of frame.
Where dice and cards the mind bewitch
Make thousands poor but no man rich.
Here the young mourner, prone to vice,
Shakes off his grief with box and dice,
The Puny Fop, tho’ gull’d before,
Pawns watch and rings, to hazard more.