Taste in high life [graphic]

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Description

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.
Ms. note in Steevens's hand in pencil above print: See Nichols's book, 3d. edit. p. 259.
On page 105 in volume 2. Sheet trimmed to: 20.9 x 27.2 cm.
Provenance
George Steevens bequeathed this collection to William Windham (1750-1810). At Windham's death, the collection was put up for sale on 20 July 1810 and was bought in by Mrs. Windham at 292 guineas; by descent through the Windham family; Sotheby's, 17 February 1919 to Dyson Perrins for £400; Sotheby's sale including Property of the Late C.W. Dyson Perrins, Esq., 11 June 1959, lot 100 purchased by Maggs Bros. for W.S. Lewis for £1300.
Extent
1 print : plate mark 21.0 x 28.0 cm, on sheet 27.1 x 34.9 cm
Edition
[State 2?].
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize)

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

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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Rights
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Identifiers

Orbis Record
9897650
Object ID (OID)
16194016

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