Rake's Progress, scene 3: The Rake's Orgy at the Rose Tavern

It is three o'clock in the morning and Tom, drunk, is enjoying the attentions of prostitutes at the Rose Tavern in London's Covent Garden. A night watchman's staff and lantern lie beside him (souvenirs of a rowdy night in the surrounding streets). Two of the ladies are relieving Tom of his watch. In the foreground a woman is undressing ready to perform poses on the pewter dish that is being carried into the chamber.