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Image Title: High Life At Noon, 1769

Date: 1769.

Summary: Print shows an interior view of a room in which two men and two women are taking tea; on the left, a man with an extremely long ponytail attempts to prevent the entrance of a messenger carrying a bill from "Lord Rakish to Jere' Buckram - To Sundry Suits of Cloaths... 47q : 6:6"; at center, a man seated at a table has placed a hand on the breast of a woman standing next to him offering biscuits on a plate, next to him sits a clergyman holding an open tract "A Sermon - I am Sick of Love", he is talking to a woman seated on his left, she is surreptitiously receiving a letter from her lover which is delivered by a page "her Confidant." In the foreground, a monkey sits on the floor reading "A Dissertation on Winding up the Clock by Tristram Shandy" and on the right, a squirrel sits on a stool. A caged bird in the background says, "Caesar and Pompey were both of them Horned."

Notes: Includes 8 lines of verse: With Touch indelicate his Grace / Approaches that angelic Place; / Her Ladyship his fondness views, / While she the self same Path pursues; / ...

Subjects: Adultery--England--1760-1770
Clergy--England--1760-1770
Tea parties--England--1760-1770
Women--Social life--England--1760-1770

Original Media: Engraving|Etching

Collections: Cartoon Prints, British » more info...

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