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Hogarth's Works, with life and anecdotal descriptions of his pictures. Volume 1 (of 3)

Note 164 — HOGARTH ILLUSTRATED. (continued 3)

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This scene is laid in the cellar of a house near Water Lane, Fleet Street, then known by the name of the "Blood Bowl House;" which curious appellation was given it from the various scenes of riot and murder which were there perpetrated.

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