Similar
Revelling with harlots (BM 1871,1209.5687)
Summary
Copy of a room at the Rose Tavern, Drury Lane (after the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum); to right, Tom, surrounded by prostitutes and clearly drunk, sprawls on a chair with his foot on the table; one young woman embraces him and steals his watch, another spits a stream of gin across the table to the amusement of a young black woman standing in the background, another woman drinks from the punchbowl, another is removing her clothes in order to perform "postures"; to left, a harpist and a door through which enter a man holding a large dish and a candle, and a pregnant ballad singer holding a sheet lettered "Black Joke"; on the walls hang a map of the world to which a young woman holds a candle and framed prints of Roman emperors, all (except that of Nero) damaged; after Hogarth; second state.
Etching and engraving
Tags
Date
Source
Copyright info