Date painted: 1730
<pre>   Oil on canvas, 64.3 x 76.5 cm
   Collection: Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales
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This composition depicts the same children as those in its pendant except that the elder boy is absent. The broken capital behind the drum-playing small boy and the mirror held by his sister are symbols of vanity and decay.
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:William_Hogarth" class="extiw" title="w:en:William Hogarth"><span title="English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist (1697-1764)">William Hogarth</span></a>
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1730<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1730-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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