The laughing audience (or a pleased audience)

Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 · 1733

This print as originally made as a subscription ticket for "A Rake's Progress" and "Southwark Fair." An audience of men and women in a theatre pit, all but one man laughing uproariously. Above them in a box, two gentleman ignore the stage in favor of an orange girl and another young woman who takes a pinch of snuff. Another orange girl reaches from the pit to tug at the sleeve of one of the gentlemen.