The laughing audience [graphic]Purcell, Richard, approximately 1736-approximately 1765, printmaker[between 1746 and 1766?]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.Date from British Museum online catalogue.Charles Corbet is one of the pseudonyms of Richard Purcell.Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.Copy after no. 130 in R. Paulson. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.).