The rake carouses in a tavern full of prostitutes. Engraving by Thomas Bowles, 1735.

Drury Lane, Covent Garden was notorious for "disorderly" taverns and "bawdy" brothels. The whores "dally, quarrel, smoke and quaff" accompanied by harp and violin music. On the walls are a variety of pictures. From left to right they are inscribed "Polly Peacham, "Capn. Mackheath", "Tiberius Caesar", "The famous Seven wonders of the world", "Caesar Augustus", " Julius Caesar", "Sarah Malcolm" and "Nero". One of the whores kisses the portrait of Dr. Henry Sacheverell (1674-1724), a seditious preacher

[London] ([no 13 in Cornhill]) : [printed for John Bowles], [1735]

1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 23.4 x 31.1 cm.

He revels with common whores at a tavern in Drury Lane.

R. Paulson, Hogarth's graphic works, London 1989, 3rd edition, related to 134 and B.M.C. 2198-2200

British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, London 1877, vol.3, nos. 2198-2200.

D. Kunzle, Plagiaries-by-memory of the Rake's Progress and the genesis of Hogarth's second picture story, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 29, 1966, plate 56d

Wellcome Library no. 38340i

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