Caption:
Regency gentlemen buying gin for the prostitutes and low-life in a Bath public house. A soldier and camp follower play music in the corner, while a Hackney coachman watches a catfight. The Buff Club, at the Pig and Whistle, Avon Street, Bath. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Robert Cruikshank from The English Spy, London, 1825. Written by Bernard Blackmantle, a pseudonym for Charles Molloy Westmacott.