Above: the gamble arms; a garlanded shield with crossed lion's paws supported on scrolls with a woman's head, flanked by two male torsos supporting a lintel with a head of minerva in a scalloped niche at the centre and baskets of fruit to either side; a scroll below labelled '[blank] gamble'; after an undated print questionably attributed to hogarth. Below: hogarth's shop-card, 1720; the artist's trade card presenting him as an engraver both of prints and decorative metalwork; frame with a figures in classical dress on either side (on the left a woman, on the right a man drawing) and, above, putti holding a print and a vase; lettered in the centre 'wm: hogarth engraver cranbourn alley' and in a plaque in the base of the frame 'aprill ye: 2 1720. '. Date: circa 1790.
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