Moll Hackabout, dressed in fine clothes, is beating hemp, used for making rope, with a mallet, in a prison with other inmates who are mostly prostitutes. Engraving by William Hogarth.

The scene is the interior of Bridewell, the house of correction in Tothill Fields, Westminster. In the background is some graffiti of "Sr JG" hung. A warden threatens Moll with a cane and points to a tog and chain. A discarded and torn card on the floor indicates that the man was a gambler