A bagnio scene with a white-leggd chicken coaxking [sic] an old dotard. [graphic]

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Title: A bagnio scene with a white-leggd chicken coaxking [sic] an old dotard. [graphic]
Contributor: Robert Sayer and John Bennett (Firm), publisher.
Published / Created: as the act directs, 2nd March, 1778.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, No. 53 Fleet Street
Abstract: "Two men in a brothel, one sitting on the right uncorking a bottle, the other putting his arm around the shoulder of a prostitute, leering as she adjusts his cravat, urged by the Madam who rises from a sofa in front of a round table with punch-bowl and glasses, one hand on a paper; a screen behind to right, two oval landscapes, a cartouche and a picture of Venus among rocks on the wall behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from text below image.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 2010,7081.823.
No. 55 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries.
Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Provenance: From the H.J. Peters sale, Sotheby's, lot 230; December 1960;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 34.5 x 25.0 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1778
Mezzotints England London 1778
Material: mezzotint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Brothels
Furnishings
Interiors
Paintings
Prostitutes
Screens
Subjects: Brothels
Furnishings
Interiors
Paintings
Prostitutes
Screens
England > 1778
England > London > 1778

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