“Plate from a pirated series of Hogarth’s Rake’s Progress, not based on one of the original prints: Covent Garden with St Paul’s church and the buildings at the north-western corner of the piazza; the Rake (here called Ramble) and drunken friends are accosting women passers-by and the watch has arrived to set about them with staves.”–British Museum online catalogue.
- Printmaker: Bowles, Thomas, II, active 1712-1767, printmaker.
- Title: He and his drunken companions raise a riot in Covent Garden [graphic].
- Publication: [London] : [John Bowles], [1735]
Hogarth 735.00.00.19+
Acquired January 2021