A Representation of the March of the Guards towards Scotland, in the Year 1745, William Hogarth, 1750

"the march to finchley"; scene at tottenham court (after the painting in the foundling museum) with soldiers gathering to march north to defend london from the jacobite rebels; the crowd includes, in the foreground, a man urinating painfully against a wall as he reads an advertisement for dr rock's remedy for venereal disease, an innocent young piper, a drunken drummer, a young soldier with a pregnant ballad seller (her basket contains "god save our noble king" and a portrait of the duke of cumberland) and a jacobite harridan selling newspapers, a milkmaid being kissed by one soldier while another fills his hat from her pail, a muffin man, a chimney boy, a gin-seller whose emaciated baby reaches for a drink; in the background a boxing match takes place under the sign of giles gardiner (adam and eve), a wagon loaded with equipment follows the marching soldiers and, to right, prostitutes lean from the windows of a brothel at the sign of charles ii's head; beyond the sunlight shines on hampstead village on the hill; unfinished etched proof, before letters. 1750 etching. Date: 1750. Dimensions: Height: 431 mm; Width: 552 mm. Medium: paper. Depicted People: Charles II, King of England. Collection: British Museum. A Representation of the March of the Guards towards Scotland, in the Year 1745 (BM S,2.115)