
Hemming's Rents, a small lane. Drawn in black pen and quink. There were few paved streets at this time in London:
"...in other parts of the city each house and shop-owner cared for the patch outside the door; fops in red heels would stumble and sway between gleaming slabs and dusty ruts, stepping delicately past the piles of rubbish, ashes and oyster shells."
(Jenny Uglow, 'Hogarth: A Life and a World', page 297)




The Wolfman

The original drawing (unfinished and hastily done I know):
This was unintentional, but when folded round on itself, the picture told a different story - ...Freud's legs matched his client's body:

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