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1. [High life below stairs] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1774]
- Call Number:
- Bunbury 774.02.23.01.1+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- 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., and Lines of dialogue added below image in a contemporary hand: Blackee you go! Cook, Sambo, answer the door. Cookey you go!
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Servants and Theatrical productions
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [High life below stairs] [graphic]
