61.
- Creator:
- Ravenet, Simon François, 1706-1774 printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 April 1745]
- Call Number:
- Sotheby 19++ Box 300
- Collection Title:
- Plate 19. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- The countess holds a morning levée in her lavishly decorated bedroom. Her hairdresser curls her hair as she chats with her lawyer, Silvertongue, who is making arrangements to meet her at a masquerade (as shown on the screen). Others in the room include a female friend and her husband; a castrato singer accompanied by a flautist; a young black man who serves chocolate to the party; and a small black boy who points to the horns of a figure of Actaeon purchased at an auction with other objects, including a fake mermaid and a plate with the scene of Leda and the swan; playing cards and invitations are on the floor in the lower right. On the walls are paintings of biblical stories and mythology, including Lot's Daughters, Jupiter and Io, and Rape of Ganymede
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., State from Paulson., and After the painting "The Toilette" in the National Gallery, London.
- Publisher:
- Wm. Hogarth
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Topic):
- Adultery, Blacks, Boudoirs, Children, Couples, Hairdressing, Interiors, Marriage, Musicians, Paintings, Seduction, Servants, and Rake's progress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Marriage a-la-mode. [graphic] / Plate IV