The method of high-finishing family pictures [graphic].

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Title: The method of high-finishing family pictures [graphic].
Contributor: Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793, publisher.
Published / Created: publish'd 1st Augt. 1771.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Abstract: An astounded-looking elderly man peeks into a room where a young woman reposes on a couch. Kneeling in front of her is a young man who reaches up and draws with a piece of chalk two horns on her husband's portrait above them
Description: Title from item.
Eight lines of verse in two columns on both sides of title: To one alone I cannot constant be, because the life I love is to be free ...
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Cuckolds -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Letters: billets doux -- Furniture: couch.
Provenance: Print Shop ; Oct. 1959 ;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 35.1 x25.2 cm, on sheet 39 x 28 cm
Language: English

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