Outside of the opera house at night gallantry of Tom and Jerry / [graphic]

"Jerry Hawthorn handing a lady into a coach, Corinthian Tom following with a lady on his arm, both gentlemen dressed in dark coats, holding opera hats, both ladies wrapped in shawls with feathers in their hair, a coachman standing at the door to the coach, two link boys with flaming torches offering their services to Tom, a large crowd behind them in the colonade outside of the opera house, a beadle pushing his way through the masses and two infantrymen on guard at the near door, one chatting to a young girl, a man shouting to the right; illustration to Egan's "Life in London" (1821)."--British Museum online catalogue