'St. James's Street', 18th century, (1925). Engraving after Plate 4 of William Hogarth's 'A Rake's Progress' of 1735, 'Arrested for Debt'. The rake, Tom Rakewell, is stopped as he alights from his sedan chair. On the left is a Bow Street officer. The scene is St James's Street, looking towards St James's Palace from the King Street junction in London. From "London in the Eighteenth Century", by Sir Walter Besant. [A. & C. Black, Ltd., London, 1925]
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