"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."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
O vanity of youthfull blood, so by misuse to poison good! Woman form'd for social love, fairest gift of powers above ...
Description:
Title, state, and imprint from Paulson., Added title from first lines of verse engraved below image., Caption in five columns below image., and "Plate 3."--Lower right.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Blacks, Fighting, Harps, Interiors, Intoxication, Musicians, Rake's progress, Prostitutes, Robberies, Street entertainers, Taverns (Inns), and Vandalism
