A young man sleeps reclining on a chaise-longue, his wig removed and placed on a chair to the left. A richly dressed young woman standing behind the chair leans forward looking at him with a sceptical expression on her face. On the other side, another young woman leans close to him, upsetting in the process a table on which a black servant was about to place a tea tray. In the background on the right, a serving maid walks into the room, her arms raised in alarm
Description:
Title from item., Second line of title and publisher from an impression in the British Museum., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of the second line of title and imprint., and One of a series of engravings made from the paintings by Francis Hayman for the ballroom at Vauxhall Gardens in 1743.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer in the Golden Buck in Fleet Street
