… 1809. Image Thomas Rowlandson, 'Dressing for a Masquerade', Met Museum, 59.533.2047, April 1, 1790. Image William Hogarth, 'Masquerades and Operas', Met Museum, 32.35(80), 1724. Abstract Masquerades – sociable assemblies of masked participants – developed into forms of public entertainment in eighteenth-century London, often welcoming crowds in the … Although it was considerably expensive – Kobza (170) has estimated the lowest possible cost of masquerade participation (including ticket and costume) at 10 shillings – it offered a space of carnivalesque class disorder and …