Revelling with harlots., William Hogarth, 1735

Copy of a room at the rose tavern, drury lane; 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; first state. 1735 etching and engraving. Date: 1735. Dimensions: Height: 264 mm; Width: 304 mm. Medium: paper. Depicted People: Augustus. Collection: British Museum. Revelling with harlots. (BM 1873,0809.1476)