Feb 24th, 2020 : Carousing
 

This is the center detail of a 1755 painting called “Sea Captains Carousing in Surinam”
South America has many psychotropic plants for eating, drinking, snorting and smoking.

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Featured prominently were several Rhode Island Captains, two who later became governor of Rhode Island, one became a
US Navy Commander 1775-'78, and one became a Declaration of Independence signer.
They were all friends of the painter John Greenwood who lived in Surinam.

The entire painting measures 37.75 by 75 inches (95.9 cm × 190.5 cm), oil on a bed sheet.

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Looks like quite a party.
Find a source that allows zooming in for details, humorous and otherwise.

It is on bed "ticking," likely stouter than a sheet.

Is that fella on the far right taking a selfie?!

I'm not even sure it's a fella. :confused:

It's to prove to the other members of the time-travellers' club that he was there, the night of this famous party.

It appears to be a bottle or very safe butt plug.