"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 below image., The print, after a painting commissioned by Mary Edwards, was made without Hogarth's permission. It is not included in Paulson's catalogue., Dobson calls this the second state although he mis-identifies the publisher as Boydell., Sheet trimmed close to plate mark., Copy of: No. 2564 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and On page 105 in volume 2.
Publisher:
Published May 1, 1798 by Saml. Phillips 5. Leicester Square
Subject (Topic):
Blacks, Clothing & dress, Dandies, Fire screens, Interiors, Monkeys, and Muffs