Taste in high life [graphic]

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Title: Taste in high life [graphic]
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Published / Created: [1798?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "An expensively furnished interior with an elderly lady wearing an enormous hooped petticoat in conversation with an extravagantly dressed gentleman; to left, a fashionable young lady pats a black page boy under the chin; in the foreground, a monkey wearing a coat and three-cornered hat reads a menu beginning "Pour Dinner/Cox Combs ..."; on the far wall, are pictures including one, labelled "Insects", showing the dancer Philippe Desnoyer, and another showing a statue of Venus with a hooped petticoat and stays"--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched above image.
The print, after a painting commissioned by Mary Edwards, was made without Hogarth's permission. It is not included in Paulson's catalogue.
Sheet trimmed to: 213 x 278 mm.
Ms. annotation in ink, lower right corner: '6'.
Provenance: Purchased from John Grant, Ltd., August 1940; Formerly owned by Charles Kinnaird, 8th Lord Kinnaird of Inchture (1780-1826).
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 21.0 x 28.0 cm, on sheet 27.1 x 34.9 cm
Edition: [State 2?].
Language: English

Genre: Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Etchings England London 1798
Satires (Visual works) England 1798
Material: etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Blacks
Clothing & dress
Dandies
British
Fire screens
Interiors
Monkeys
Muffs
Subjects: Blacks
Clothing & dress
Dandies > British
Fire screens
Interiors
Monkeys
Muffs
18th century
England > London > 1798
England > 1798
Kinnaird, Charles Kinnaird, Baron, 1780-1826 > Ownership
Steevens, George, 1736-1800 > Ownership
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958 > Ownership

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