"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., and Ms. annotation in ink, lower right corner: '6'.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Blacks, Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Fire screens, Interiors, Monkeys, and Muffs
