"The fashionable guests, many being probably portraits and almost all elderly and plain, stand in conversation except for four at a card-table in the foreground, and for a military officer (? Prince Leopold) who lounges on a sofa. The room is bare exc...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 3d 1826 by G. Humphrey 24 St. James's Street St. James's
Leaf 28. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Persons standing in conversation at a party. The principal figures are two elaborately dressed ladies of plebeian, elderly, and unattractive appearance who face each other; one holds a card, the other a fan. Their hair is awkwardly dressed in the eno...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. accog. to act by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London
Subject (Topic):
Parties, Social life and customs, Clothing & dress, Hairstyles, Wigs, Fans, Servants, and Feathers
A social gathering, in which two elaborately dressed and coiffed old ladies stand conversing in the center foreground, as a short footman of unprepossessing appearance carries in a tray loaded with a tankard and a triple stand of jelly glasses. In the...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. accog. to act by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London
Subject (Topic):
Parties, Social life and customs, Hairstyles, Wigs, Servants, Clothing & dress, and Feathers
An expensively decorated room with a gas chandelier of cut glass is filled with a raffish crowd, eating, drinking, and fighting, and flirting. The selling of shell-fish is a 'specious pretence' for 'costly suppers' in a 'den of depravity'. The center...
Alternative Title:
New Covent Garden Hall
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Sherwood Jones & Co.
Subject (Name):
Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856,
Subject (Topic):
Chandeliers, Courtship, Eating & drinking, Fighting, and Parties
An expensively decorated room with a gas chandelier of cut glass is filled with a raffish crowd, eating, drinking, and fighting, and flirting. The selling of shell-fish is a 'specious pretence' for 'costly suppers' in a 'den of depravity'. The center...
Alternative Title:
New Covent Garden Hall
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from published state.
Publisher:
Sherwood Jones & Co.
Subject (Name):
Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856,
Subject (Topic):
Chandeliers, Courtship, Crowds, Eating & drinking, Fighting, Intoxication, and Parties
