Lady with elaborate headdress sitting in chair in front of a sofa holds an open book (The whole duty of man) in her left hand and pulls up her skirts with the right, while a kneeling man in a pigtail wig and wearing a sword examines her left foot as it rests on a footstool. In his right hand he holds her shoe, his tools on the floor next to him, his hat behind
Description:
Title from item., Imperfect; trimmed within plate mark at top edge., and First (?) state of no. 4638 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
A fat man, his wig turned upside down, sleeps in his chair, with a punch bowl, bottle and glass on the table by his elbow. Balanced on his enormous stomach is a see-saw, weighted down at the right by a diminutive boy and with a tiny girl seated on the raised end. On the wall behind him is a partly visible picture of someone playing bowls. A dog sleeps on the floor beneath the man's chair
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on sheet 23 x 19 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the Act directs 23.1776 by J. Lockington, Shug Lane, Golden Square, London
Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd according to act of Parliament, Jany. 20, 1772.
Call Number:
772.01.20.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two men and three women sit around a long trestle table in an alcove along the gallery of the Pantheon while a child plays hobby horse with a tasselled cane. One of the women tries to turn her companion's head towards her but he instead looks at the child by his knee and points to the other side of the table where the other man is offering a cup of tea to one of the two young women next to him. A tea service is displayed on the table. In the background other visitors look around from their alcoves