Box Lobby Loungers. Artist: After Henry Wigstead (British, 1745-1800 Margate). Dimensions: Sheet: 16 x 22 13/16 in. (40.7 x 57.9 cm). Etcher: Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757-1827 London). Publisher: John Raphael Smith (British, baptized Derby 1751-1812 Doncaster). Date: January 5, 1811.A reissue of print first published 1786. A crowded room next to a theater, which is glimpsed through two open doors at right. Courtesans and ladies are being inspected by loungers, including Colonel George Hanger (later Lord Coleraine) with a club under his arm (his "Supple Jack"). Hanger looks at two attractive courtesans and fails to notice a pickpocket taking the seals from his fob. At right two more fashionably dressed women attract elderly admirers. Two sea captains regard a short elderly beau with contempt. Other figures include two "Don Juans", and a woman who sells oranges and programs and acts as a bawd. A playbill reads: "Theatre Royal Covent Garden / The Way of the World / Who's the
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