"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.
"A Quaker fondling a woman's exposed breasts outside a house or brothel. Above and leaning from a balcony are two other women watching the couple with amusement. On the left walks another Quaker who appears shocked or surprised by the proceedings. A sign placed in the garden of the house warns of man traps within the grounds."--Royal Collection Trust online catalogue.
Description:
Date assigned by curator., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Printmaker from the Royal Collection Trust online catalogue., Three lines of verse on either side of title: I love you, would move you ... Concent then, relent then, and take an upright Quaker., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership. and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
"Lady Cecilia Johnston (three-quarter length), seated in an armchair in profile to the left, leans forward to kiss the nose of a large goat which puts a hoof on her chest. Identified by Grego as Sir W. W. Wynn, but improbably."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Seduction of the Welch ambassador and St. Cecilia charming the brute
Description:
Day of publication in imprint seems to have been burnished from plate., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Title etched above image.
Publisher:
H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher., Johnston, Henrietta Cecilia,--Lady,--1727-1817--Caricatures and cartoons., and Williams-Wynn, Watkin,--1772-1840--Caricatures and cartoons.
Subject (Topic):
Courtship., Goats., Kissing., and National emblems--Welsh.