Lettered inside image, upper left: "Avarice."; upper right: "Drunkenness."; center left: "Gambling."; lower right: "Debauchery."; lettered below image, lower center: "VICES Overlook'd in the New PROCLAMATION. | To the Commons of Great Britain, this representation of Vices, which remain unforbidden by Proclamation, is dedicated, as proper for initiation, and in place of the more dangerous Ones of Thinking, Speaking & Writing, now forbidden by Authority."
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection