A drunken woman standing in the street in St Giles's, London. Coloured etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.

Left background, a door with inscription on lintel "St. Giles's"; on the front of the spiked door, "Watch house". Background right, "Barclay Perkins & Co. entire wine vaults", with drinkers outside. St Giles was an insanitary area of poor housing in London, in the parish of St Giles in the fields, near the junction of Oxford Street with the later Tottenham Court Road