The hall of infamy, alias the Oyster Saloon in Bridges St., or, New Covent Garden Hall [graphic]Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, artist[1 January 1825]engAn expensively decorated room with a gas chandelier of cut glass is filled with a raffish crowd, eating, drinking, and fighting, and flirting. The selling of shell-fish is a 'specious pretence' for 'costly suppers' in a 'den of depravity'. The center figure, a young man assiled by a woman, appears to be R.C. See British Museum catalogueTitle from caption below image.Date of publication from British Museum catalogue.Date of publication erased from sheet. For complete imprint statement cf. no. 14950 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10.Sheet trimmed within plate mark.