Copy of a room at the rose tavern, drury lane (after the painting at sir john soane's museum); to left, 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 right, 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. Hand-coloured aquatint with etching. Date: 1735-1785 (c.). Dimensions: Height: 314 mm (trimmed); Width: 380 mm. Medium: paper. Depicted People: Augustus. Collection: British Museum. A Rake's Progress, Plate 3 (BM 1942,0929.5)
Loading...
