"A young couple sit side by side taking tea; the hostess, probably the mother of the young woman, is seated at a small rectangular table filling a tea-pot from an urn. A footman holds a salver to a man who helps himself to sugar, probably the father of the younger man. He sits on the right of his host, a gouty invalid in dressing-gown and nightcap, who is seated in an armchair on the extreme right. A dog sits beside the tea-table."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Date '1785' in lower right corner of image., It is suggested that this print is an imitation of Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue, but Grego indicates that it is by Rowlandson., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
S. W. Fores, at the Caracature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Fores, S. W., publisher. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97860707, and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Subject (Topic):
Couples. , Courtship., Dogs., Servants., and Tea parties.
"The interior of a luxuriously furnished room. A young woman (right), fashionably dressed, looks down demurely as she receives the eager advances of an elderly and toothless man wearing a bag-wig and sword and the ribbon of an order. He covertly gives a purse to a fat and elaborately dressed bawd who stands behind him."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Reissue of no. 6872 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
S. W. Fores, no. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Fores, S. W., publisher., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Riviere & Son--Binding.
Subject (Topic):
Bribery., Courtship., Daggers & swords., Parlors., and Wigs.