11.
- Creator:
- Ravenet, Simon François, 1706-1774, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 April 1745]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize) Box 1
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 19. Album of William Hogarth prints.
- 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., After the painting "The Toilette" in the National Gallery, London., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Sheet trimmed to: 38.6 x 46.1 cm., and Formerly on page 116 in volume 2. Removed in 2012 by LWL conservator.
- 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