The author/artist, on the staircase in the background, laments the pirating of his works by booksellers shown here carrying off bundles formerly addressed to the author.
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Related Title(s):
Is part of: Human passions delineated in above 120 figures...designed in the Hogarthian style...; See related catalog record: WZ 336 C69 no. 1