Street scene.   A fashionably dressed man walks (right to left) between two prostitutes, who have seized him by the shoulders and arm. One (right) hands to a man who lurks behind her a handkerchief she has taken from his pocket. A link-boy walks in front of the party holding his torch downwards. Through the glass panes which fill the upper part of the door of the bagnio (left) a woman smiles and beckons. Over the door is inscribed "WINES". The scene is probably under the piazza in Covent Garden. The women are fashionably dressed. c.January 1773
<br>Hand-coloured mezzotint
1773<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1773-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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