High life below stairs [graphic].
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Description
- Title
- High life below stairs [graphic].
- Contributor
- Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793, publisher.
- Published / Created
- [approximately 1770]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Carington Bowles?
- Abstract
-
"Interior of a kitchen showing servants at leisure: a stout woman dances with a black man in the centre accompanied by a man with a wooden leg who sits playing a violin on the left; watched by others on the right, a young woman standing on a chair and supported by a young man, while a seated man wearing a tricorn smiles and points at her and an elderly woman stands with her arms folded under her apron, a dog at her heels; two posters pasted on the wall behind, shelves, bellows and other kitchen implements in the background."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a print of the same design
- Description
-
Title engraved below image.
Publisher and approximate date of publication from smaller version in the British Museum; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.344.
Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark.
A depiction of a scene from a performance of High life below stairs (1759), the popular Georgian comedy by James Townley.
For a related drawing, attributed to Francis Grose, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: Drawings G877 no. 1.
Laid down on stiff sheet. - Provenance
- Samuel Gedge; November 2022.
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 28.5 x 41 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 770.00.00.103+
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
- Mezzotints England London 1770
- Material
- mezzotint ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
- Townley, James, 1714-1778.
- Subject (Topic)
-
Blacks
Interiors
Kitchens
Servants
Peg legs
Violins
Bellows
Dogs
Theatrical productions - Subjects
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Townley, James, 1714-1778
Blacks
Interiors
Kitchens
Servants
Peg legs
Violins
Bellows
Dogs
Theatrical productions
England > London > 1770
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 16476961
- Object ID (OID)
- 33114448