A pretty young woman sits at a table opposite a fat, older man, asleep with his glasses pushed on his forehead. The sit before a fire in a bedroom with a canope over the bed or couch (left), a guitar leaning against it. Two other pretty young woman en...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 26, 1800, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Bedrooms, Birdcages, Dogs, Fireplaces, Guitars, Sleeping, Women, and Young adults
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 January 1768]
Call Number:
Quarto 724 771N
Collection Title:
Opposite page 79. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A satire on pretensions to elegance showing a fine room in which a thin elderly dancing master teaches a stout young woman to dance, while an older woman sitting behind watches them. A man sits strumming a guitar to the left, books and sheets of mus...
"A man dressed as a woman, in the character of the Duenna (Lord Melbourne), standing at centre, closing a window with her left hand, pushing away a young woman with her right hand (Queen Victoria), lest she should listen to the serenade of the young m...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Published by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket and A. Ducôte's lithogy., 70 St. Martins Lane
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816., Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901, Durham, John George Lambton, Earl of, 1792-1840, and Melbourne, William Lamb, Viscount, 1779-1848
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Politicians, Queens, Cross dressing, Windows, Serenading, and Guitars
