Copy of 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 george desnoyer, and another showing a statue of venus with a hooped petticoat and stays; illustration to 'a supplement to hogarth illustrated' by john ireland (london: 1798, p. 250). Etching and engraving. Date: 1790-1840 (c.). Dimensions: Height: 105 mm (trimmed); Width: 128 mm. Medium: paper. Depicted People: Mary Edwards. Collection: British Museum. Taste in High Life (BM 1862,1011.409)
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