[The laughing audience, (or A pleased audience)] [graphic].Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker, publisher[December 1733]engFourth state of a plate for a subscription ticket for "A Rakes's Progress"and "Southwark Fair" with the text burnished with only a couple of traces remaining. "The scene is an audience of men and women in a theatre pit, all but one man laughing uproariously; above them in a box, two gentleman ignore the stage in favour of an orange girl and another young woman who takes a pinch of snuff; another orange girl reaches from the pit to tug at the sleeve of one of the gentlemen; to the left, three musicians protected from the audience by a row of spikes"--British Museum online catalogueTitle, state, publisher, and date from Paulson.Sheet trimmed within plate mark.