Classroom Activity Guide - Pacific Opera Victoria

Plate 2 — Surrounded By Artists and ProfessorsIn the second painting, Tom is at his morning hangout in London, attended by musicians and otherhangers-on all dressed in expensive attire. Surrounding Tom from left to right: a music master at aharpsichord; a fencing master; a quarterstaff instructor; a dancing master with a violin; an landscapearchitect; an ex-soldier offering to be a bodyguard; a bugler of a fox hunt club. At lower right is a jockeywith a silver trophy. The instructor looks disapprovingly on both the fencing and dancing masters. Bothmasters appear to be in the "French" style, which was a subject Hogarth loathed.