File:C Mosley, The Tar's Triumph, or Bawdy-House Battery. (1 July 1749).jpg

A notorious incident occurred in the 1740s when a group of rioting sailors ransacked a brothel on the Strand in central London. This print is just one of several to illustrate the subject, and we will see at least one more in the future. The British Museum happens to have a copy of this print, and they wrote an interesting short bit about it, primarily addressing the prostitutes in the foreground. At the center of the piece is a sailor grasping a tablecloth or bedsheet, locked into a tug of war with a prostitute. He wears a cocked hat with the point forward, and a neckerchief tied close and in the fashion of a cravat. His jacket is short for the period, and single breasted. His trousers are very short, ending at about mid-calf. Otherwise he wears rounded toe shoes with rectangular buckles. From the window his mate empties a drawer, spilling a wide variety of items (including a cat and a chamber pot). The sailor wears a reversed cocked hat and an open jacket with no waistcoat.

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