Rose Tavern - Plate 3, A Rake's Progress
by William Hogarth
1735
Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University Library, Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
The Rake and his friends in a room at the Rose Tavern, Drury Lane. Tom Rakewell on the left, drunk, sprawls on a chair while one of the prostitutes steals his watch. A "posture girl," front right, removes her clothes in order to pose nude on the large reflective platter being brought into the room by Leathersides, the porter and procurer. The platter is engraved "John Bonvine at the Rose Tavern Drury Lane." A pregnant ballad singer holds a sheet lettered "Black Joke." On the walls hang a map of the world about to catch fire, and framed portraits of Roman emperors, all (except that of Nero) damaged. A portrait of Pontack is in the place of Julius Caesar, which is torn out and lying on the floor beside Tom's chair.
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