High life in the evening, or, Quality dinner hour [graphic].

Description

Title: High life in the evening, or, Quality dinner hour [graphic].
Alternative Title: Quality dinner hour
Published / Created: publish'd according to act of Parliament, July 1st 1769.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Social satire, with references to the Duke of Grafton and Nancy Parsons and Lord Bute and Princess Augusta."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Publisher's announcement following publication statement: Price 1s. but given gratis to the purchasers of The Court miscellany.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Eight lines of verse in two columns on either side of the title: The great in one eternal round, of folly and excess are found ...
Companion print to: High life at noon.
Temporary local subject terms: Architectural details: staircase -- Furnishings -- Dishes: covered dishes -- Hams -- Roasted fowl -- Pets: lapdog -- Male dress, 1769 -- Female dress, 1769.
1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; sheet 21.5 x 32.1 cm.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of publication line from bottom edge.
Mounted to 26 x 32 cm.
Mounted on page 60 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
Provenance: With the armorial bookplates of "Fraser, of Ledeclune, baronet" and "Herbert Henry Raphael" in volume. Sold at Sotheby's, 22 April 1901, to Sotheran. Schatzki, lot 1193; June 1961;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 22 x 33 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Quarto 724 771N
Collection Title: Page 55. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Collection/Other Creator: King, Richard, Esq.
Collection Date: London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].