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Work for Doctors' - Commons, Feburary 1792

 Item — Box: LF100 Box 1
Reference code: LF100/11
Work for Doctors' - Commons, Feburary 1792
Work for Doctors' - Commons, Feburary 1792

Scope and Contents

Engraving. The interior of a luxuriously furnished room, across one corner of which is a large folding screen. Behind the screen (left) a man stands on a chair looking over it, while a footman in livery crouches beside him looking round it at a pair of lovers: a fashionably dressed young military officer sprawls on a sofa, with his arms round the waist of a pretty young woman. On the ground beside them a mandoline lies across a music-book. On a small ornate table are fruit and a bottle. The fire-place, chimney-piece, candelabra, and a landscape in an ornate frame indicate a handsomely furnished room. The man looking over is elderly and dressed in an old-fashioned manner with tie-wig, flapped waistcoat and sleeves with wide cuffs. The lovers have been identified as Mrs Walsh and General Upton, who, however, looks too young to be a general, nor was there a general of this name in the Army List at this date. Grego, 'Rowlandson', i. 306. Reproduced, Fuchs, 'Die Frau in der Karikatur', 1906, p. 90. Partial description from the Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Vol. VI. 8178.

Dates

  • Creation: Feburary 1792

Conditions Governing Access

Physical item available by appointment in our Reading Room

Extent

1 Item(s)

Language of Materials

English

Repository Details

Part of the Special Collections and Archives Repository

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