Moll Hackabout has been sentenced to Bridewell Prison. Here she is shown beating oakum (also done in the workhouse). Moll is threatened by the gaoler (to her left) with a leg iron and cane; the engraving implies that she in immediate threat of the stocks because they are already occupied. On Moll's right a woman mocks her "fashionable condition" while stealing something from the pockets of her dress. On Moll's left stands an older well-dressed man. At this point in her progress, Moll has at least three discernible syphilitic lesions on her face.