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Things are out of control at the run-down Rose Tavern in Covent Gardens, London.
This is the third painting of "A Rake’s Progress" and the young heir Tom Rakewell is sh*t-faced and heading for trouble. He’s splayed out on a chair, one leg resting on the table. A young lady has lifted his watch and is passing it back to an accomplice. Gone are the well-mannered groupies from The Levée.
All sorts of broken junk are strewn across the floor and on the far side of the table, a couple is fondling. Closer by, a lady is exposing her breast. A red-faced woman gulps down punch from a large bowl, another has a firm grip on her bottle.
It’s a bloody mess.
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- Christina Scull, The Soane Hogarths. Sir John Soane’s Museum, 2nd edition 2007.
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Here is what Wikipedia says about A Rake's Progress, 3: The Tavern Scene
Tavern Scene or The Orgy is a work by William Hogarth from 1735, the third picture from the series A Rake's Progress.
A Rake's Progress totals eight oil paintings from 1732 to 1733. They were published as engravings from 1734. The series depicts the fictional Tom Rakewell's decline and fall. He was the free spending son and heir of a rich merchant. In the story, he comes to London, wasting his money on luxurious life, buying the services of prostitutes and gambling. He ends up in Fleet Prison, and finally at the Bethlem Hospital, or Bedlam.
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