High life below stairs [graphic].[approximately 1770]eng"Interior of a kitchen showing servants at leisure: a stout woman dances with a black man in the centre accompanied by a man with a wooden leg who sits playing a violin on the left; watched by others on the right, a young woman standing on a chair and supported by a young man, while a seated man wearing a tricorn smiles and points at her and an elderly woman stands with her arms folded under her apron, a dog at her heels; two posters pasted on the wall behind, shelves, bellows and other kitchen implements in the background."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a print of the same designTitle engraved below image.Publisher and approximate date of publication from smaller version in the British Museum; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.344.Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark.A depiction of a scene from a performance of High life below stairs (1759), the popular Georgian comedy by James Townley.For a related drawing, attributed to Francis Grose, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: Drawings G877 no. 1.Laid down on stiff sheet.