A garden scene with two lovers in intimate conversation, with the father near-by. Other guests mingle in the distance in an allee. Musicians play fiddles, lower right
"A grotesque old maid having woken at night, the open door of her bedroom behind at left, approaching the foot of a staircase with a candle, only partly dressed and with her bosom hanging outside her dress, led on by a cat; above at left, the young ni...
Page 289. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire; an ugly old woman dressed in richly decorated black clothes, leering at a macaroni wearing a wig with an enormous looped queue, one hand on his shoulder while he lays one hand on his breast and smiles admiringly at her; a black page standing ...
Alternative Title:
Pshaw, theres no trusting you macaronies
Description:
Title from later state.
Publisher:
Henry Parker
Subject (Geographic):
Bath (England),
Subject (Topic):
Blacks, Dandies, British, Wigs, Older people, Courtship, Couples, and Servants
SH Contents W218 no. 2 Framed, shelved in LFS Bin 52
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Horace Walpole's watercolor after Antoine Watteau's Fête Champêtre depicts two amorous couples being serenaded by a musician. Another young man lounges on a blanket, his back to the viewer, as he gazes at the one dancing couple. Another figure of a ma...
Alternative Title:
Fête champêtre
Description:
Title devised by curator.
Subject (Name):
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) and Watteau, Antoine, 1684-1721
A woman swearing a child to a grave citizen, after Hogarth; a pregnant young woman standing to right, swearing on a book before a magistrate who sits at a bench to left with a book labelled 'Law of Bastadry [sic]' in front of him, that the child is by...
Alternative Title:
Denunciation
Description:
Title from Paulson and British Museum catalogue. Alternative title from Paulson: The denunciation.
Publisher:
Sold by J. Sympson engraver and print-seller at the Dove in Russell Court, Drury Lane
Subject (Topic):
Children, Couples, Courtrooms, Dogs, and Pregnant women
A woman swearing a child to a grave citizen, after Hogarth; a pregnant young woman standing to right, swearing on a book before a magistrate who sits at a bench to left with a book labelled 'Law of Bastadry [sic]' in front of him, that the child is by...
Alternative Title:
Denunciation
Description:
Title from Paulson and British Museum catalogue. Alternative title from Paulson: The denunciation.
Publisher:
Sold by J. Sympson engraver and print-seller at the Dove in Russell Court, Drury Lane
Subject (Topic):
Children, Couples, Courtrooms, Dogs, and Pregnant women
