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Taste in high life
Title
Taste in high life [graphic] / W. Hogarth pinxt. ; I. Mills sculp.
Publication
[London] : [publisher not identified], pubish'd March 1798.
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; sheet 11.9 x 13 cm
Medium
wove paper.
Notes
Title etched above image.
The print, after a painting commissioned by Mary Edwards, was made without Hogarth's permission. It is not included in Paulson's catalogue.
Copy of: No. 2563 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3.
Provenance
George Steevens bequeathed this collection to William Windham (1750-1810). At Windham's death, the collection was put up for sale on 20 July 1810 and was bought in by Mrs. Windham at 292 guineas; by descent through the Windham family; Sotheby's, 17 February 1919 to Dyson Perrins for £400; Sotheby's sale including Property of the Late C.W. Dyson Perrins, Esq., 11 June 1959, lot 100 purchased by Maggs Bros. for W.S. Lewis for £1300.
Summary
Copy: 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 Philippe Desnoyer, and another showing a statue of Venus with a hooped petticoat and stays.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 27, 2016
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Annotations (Provenance) - 18th century.
Etchings - England - London - 1798.
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1798.
Annotations (Provenance) - 18th century.
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