Tom King (detail from "A Monument for Tom K--g")
by an unknown artist
1737
British Museum 1868,0808.3595
Detail from a satire on Tom King's supposed funeral monument. A statue after King leans against a punch bowl holding a ladle in his hand. A relief on carved into the base below depicts a brawl in front of the church of St. Paul's, Covent Garden. A watchman's lantern lies on the ground between with the men's hats. "Black Betty," a serving woman at Tom King's Coffee House, kneels at his feet. A drunken rake with the broken lantern at his feet stands on a barrel of arrack on the left. A prostitute stands on a barrel of brandy on the right. Each has an artichoke and a coffee pot on the top their head. At the back of the monument is a pyramid with the epitaph "To ye Memory of their kind father T:K[in]g his loving Daughters I D[ougla]s & Molly St[uar]t & Betty C[areless] Erect ye Monument."
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