High life below stairs as it was represented at Cashiobury, the seat of the Earl of Essex / [graphic]

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Title: High life below stairs as it was represented at Cashiobury, the seat of the Earl of Essex / [graphic]
Creator: Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Contributor: Orde, Thomas, Baron Bolton, 1746-1807, artist.
Published / Created: publish'd 23d Feby. 1774.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: A bench in a kitchen on which are seated, from left to right: the coachman, half asleep; the huge cook seated facing us, arms akimbo; and a rather drowsy black boy. A shelf with pots and pans on it is on the wall to the left. At the extreme right is a grandfather clock. There are two drawings pinned to the wall
Description: Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Three lines of dialogue etched below title: Coachman: You go." Cook: Hang me if I go." Kingston: Mollsey, Pollsey go."
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 -- Domestic service: Coachman -- Kingston -- Black foot-boy -- Reference to William Ann Holles, earl of Essex, 1732-1799.
Mounted on page 71 of: Bunbury album.
1 print : etching and drypoint on laid paper ; sheet 26.6 x 29.0 cm.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Provenance: Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Grant; May 1940.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 26.1 x 29 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English