"The Duchess of Devonshire embraces a good-looking young butcher, their lips are about to meet; her right arm is round his shoulders, with her left hand she slips a purse into his breeches pocket. His right hand is on her waist. Behind him is the butcher's stall with joints of meat, a chopping-block, and cleaver. The stall partly conceals the Duchess of Portland holding by the shoulders another young butcher who turns his back and rejects her overtures. The ladies wear riding-habits and hats trimmed with ostrich feathers and a fox's brush with a large Fox favour."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Two patriotic duchesses on their canvass
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Date of publication from Grego., Text below title: Requesting the favour of an early poll., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Watermark., and Formerly mounted on leaf 55 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. by W. Humphrey, 227 Strand
Subject (Name):
Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, Portland, Dorothy Cavendish, Duchess of, 1750-1794, and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806.
