Copy: an expensively furnished interior with an elderly lady wearing an enormous hooped petticoat in conversation with an extravagantly dressed gentleman; to left, a fashionable young lady pats a black page boy under the chin; in the foreground, a monkey wearing a coat and three-cornered hat reads a menu beginning "Pour Dinner/Cox Combs ..."; on the far wall, are pictures including one, labelled "Insects", showing the dancer Philippe Desnoyer, and another showing a statue of Venus with a hooped petticoat and stays
Description:
Title etched above image., The print, after a painting commissioned by Mary Edwards, was made without Hogarth's permission. It is not included in Paulson's catalogue., Copy of: No. 2563 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand: Copy., and On page 105 in volume 2.
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Subject (Topic):
Blacks, Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Fire screens, Interiors, Monkeys, and Muffs