A Rake's Progress, Plate 3, William Hogarth, 1735

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; in this state, the portrait of julius caesar is replaced with one labelled 'pontac'. 1735 etching and engraving. Date: 1735. Dimensions: Height: 353 mm; Width: 407 mm. Medium: paper. Depicted People: Augustus. Collection: British Museum. A Rake's Progress, Plate 3 (BM S,2.39)