1-237-261 - The London Archives (City of London)/Heritage Images

'A Rake's Progress', 1735, plate III of VIII. Tom Rakewell is in the Rose Tavern, on Drury Lane, London, being relieved of his pocket watch by two women. Behind them a group of figures sit at a table drinking, whilst a woman disrobes in the foreground. To the right a waiter enters with a street singer.