High life in the evening, or, Quality dinner hour [graphic].

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Title: High life in the evening, or, Quality dinner hour [graphic].
Alternative Title: Quality dinner hour
Published / Created: publish'd according to act of Parliament, July 1st 1769.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Social satire, with references to the Duke of Grafton and Nancy Parsons and Lord Bute and Princess Augusta."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Publisher's announcement following publication statement: Price 1s. but given gratis to the purchasers of The Court miscellany.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Eight lines of verse in two columns on either side of the title: The great in one eternal round, of folly and excess are found ...
Companion print to: High life at noon.
Temporary local subject terms: Architectural details: staircase -- Furnishings -- Dishes: covered dishes -- Hams -- Roasted fowl -- Pets: lapdog -- Male dress, 1769 -- Female dress, 1769.
Provenance: Suckling; May 1956;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 22 x 33 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 769.07.01.01+
Collection Title: Page 55. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Collection / Other Creator: King, Richard, Esq.
Collection Date: London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Periodical illustrations
Satires (Visual works) England 1769
Etchings England London 1769
Material: etching with engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773
Maynard, Annabella Parsons, Viscountess, d. 1814 or 15
Subject (Topic): Interiors
Entrance halls
Kitchens
Stairways
Columns
Clocks & watches
Food
Dogs
Servants
Subjects: Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772 > Caricatures and cartoons
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792 > Caricatures and cartoons
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773 > Caricatures and cartoons
Maynard, Annabella Parsons, Viscountess, d. 1814 or 15 > Caricatures and cartoons
Interiors
Entrance halls
Kitchens
Stairways
Columns
Clocks & watches
Food
Dogs
Servants
England > 1769
England > London > 1769
Raphael, Herbert H. > Ownership
Fraser, William Augustus Sir, 1826-1898 > Ownership

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