The laughing audience [graphic]Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker[between 1760 and 1792]engA copy in the same direction as Hogarth's subscription ticket for "A Rakes's Progress"and "Southwark Fair". 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 a young woman selling oranges and another young woman who takes a pinch of snuff; another young woman selling oranges reaches from the pit to tug at the sleeve of one of the gentlemen; on the lower edge, three musicians are protected from the audience by a row of spikesTitle engraved below image.Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.Copy after no. 130 in: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.).