Revelling with harlots [graphic].March 25, 1768.engCopy in reverse of the first state of Plate 3 of Hogarth's 'The Rake's Progress' (Paulson 134): A room at the Rose Tavern, Drury Lane (after the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum); to left, Tom, surrounded by prostitutes and clearly drunk, sprawls on a chair with his foot on the table; one young woman embraces him and steals his watch, another spits a stream of gin across the table to the amusement of a young black woman standing in the background; one woman drinks from the punchbowl; another is removing her clothes in order to perform "postures"; to the right, a harpist and a door through which enters a man holding a large dish and a candle, and a pregnant ballad singer holding a sheet lettered "Black Joke"; on the walls hang a map of the world to which a young woman holds a candle and framed prints of Roman emperors, all (except that of Nero) damaged. A second version of the paintings is at the Atkins Museum (Kansas City, Missouri).Title from text engraved above image."Plate 3"--Lower right below design.Verses below image in three columns, four lines each: What wretched Fate succeeds his guilty joys, ...The ornamental borders along the left and right edges are printed from a separate plate (images 25 x 2.8 cm, on plate mark 5.7 x 36.5 cm).A reissue, with a new publication line and with ornamental borders added, of the third of eight prints in a series; all are copies of the first states of Hogarth's plates with new verses in the columns below the image; copies were made with Hogarth's consent in 1735. See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), page 90.Original publication line: Published with the consent of Mr. William Hogarth by Tho. Bakewell according to Act of Parliament July 1735.