This series is more light-hearted and humorous, without the grave moralizing of many other works by Hogarth, and so it was, oddly enough, not nearly as popular.
A lady on her way to church is shocked by the sight of bawdy men groping the market girls. Children dawdle before going to school. Revelers have been up all night in the coffee house, and are now fighting. In the print, Father Tine stands over the clock, with the inscription of Sic transit gloria mundi.
William Hogarth, Four Times of the Day: Morning (engraving, 1738)
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