[High life below stairs] [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- [High life below stairs] [graphic]
- Creator
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Contributor
- Orde, Thomas, Baron Bolton, 1746-1807, artist.
- Published / Created
- [1774]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- publisher not identified
- Abstract
-
A bench in a kitchen on which are seated, from left to right: a coachman half asleep, in brown breeches and waistcoat and green coat, his stockings falling down; a huge cook seated facing us, arms akimbo, in brown, with a blue and white kerchief; and a rather drowsy black boy in brown breeches and green waistcoat with sleeves. A shelf with pots and pans on it is on the wall to the left. At the extreme right is a grandfather clock, brown with a yellow face. There are two drawings pinned to the wall, the top one of a fat gentleman in blue asleep in a chair, the other of a bald man in brown
- Description
-
Title and publication date from later state.
Early state. For later state with title, imprint, and other text added below image, see Lewis Walpole call no.: Bunbury 774.02.23.01.2+.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right side of upper edge.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Theater: High life below stairs -- Amateur theatricals.
Imperfect; printmaker's signature mostly erased from lower right corner of sheet.
An additional shelf with five plates added in watercolor to upper left corner of design.
Title added below image in a contemporary hand: High life below stairs.
Lines of dialogue added below image in a contemporary hand: Blackee you go! Cook, Sambo, answer the door. Cookey you go! - Provenance
- Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. iv.
- Extent
- 1 print : plate mark 26.7 x 29 cm, on sheet 28.0 x 31 cm
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Bunbury 774.02.23.01.1+
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Satires (Visual works) England 1774
Etchings England London 1774
Drypoints England London 1774
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century - Material
- etching and drypoint ; and laid paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Topic)
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Servants
Theatrical productions - Subjects
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Servants
Theatrical productions
England > 1774
England > London > 1774
18th century
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 10132579
- Object ID (OID)
- 10716274