Copy of a fashionable interior with tom, in elegant indoor dress, surrounded by tradesmen vying for his custom: a poet, a wigmaker, a tailor, a musician (with a list of presents given by aristocrats to the popular castrato, farinelli), a fencing master (said to be named dubois), a prizefighter with quarter-staffs (said to be james figg), a dancing master, a landscape-gardener (said to be charles bridgeman), a bodyguard, a huntsman and a jockey; after hogarth. 1735
etching and engraving. Date: 1735. Dimensions: Height: 262 mm; Width: 308 mm. Medium: paper. Depicted People: Farinelli. Collection: British Museum. Attended by his levee in London. (BM 1856,0712.33)
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