The confidantsWatson, Thomas, 1750-1781, printmaker[20 May 1780]engAn oval composition showing two fashionable women with large bonnets sitting side-by-side at a small, round table laid with a fine tea set. The woman on the left reads from a letter as the listener looks on with interest and fondles the miniature hung from a ribbon around her neckTitle from item.Both Smith and Goodwin note another state of this plate with the title "The Confidants or the Billet-doux".See: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits.Compare: Goodwin, G. British mezzotinters: Thomas Watson, James Watson, Elizabeth Judkins, 61.