The tea-table [graphic].

Published/Created:

[London]
Sold by Jno. Bowles, Print and Map Seller, at No. 13 in Cornhill, London
[1766?]

Physical Description:

1 print on laid paper : etching ; sheet 20.8 x 15.8 cm.

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires / Frederick George Stephens, v. 2, no. 1555

Notes:

Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publication date in Stephens: 1710?.
Later state, published no earlier than 1740, i.e., the beginning date of John Bowles's business location at Cornhill. See London book trades, 1775-1800 / Ian Maxted, p. 26
Sixty-nine lines of verse engraved in three columns below image: How see we scandal (for our sex too base), seat its dread empire in the female race ...
Dated from the Westminster Paving Act of 1766.
Leverhulme-Auchincloss, v. i; May 1954; Acquisitions no.: 954-5-1-16.
Mounted to 33 x 24 cm.

Abstract:

A group of ladies sit in highback chairs around a circular table, drinking tea and gossiping. On the table in front of the lady on the right, lays a book open to pages which read "Chit-Chat"; her lap dog sits looking up at her eagerly while a demon hides under the table at her feet. The ladies sit in a well-appointed parlor decorated with a rug, an elaborate mirror, and curtains. Above the fireplace hangs a picture of a clergyman carrying a woman on his back to church. To the left Envy chases Truth and Justice out the open door. On the right two gentlemen peer into the room through an open window and listen to the ladies' conversation. The engraved lines below in verse berates women for their love of gossip and inability to follow the dictates of the ninth commandment, forbidding one to bear false witness against one's neighbor. To the left of the fireplace is a niche filled with cups, plates, and other tableware.

Associated Names:

Bowles, John, 1701-1779 [Publisher]

Topics:

Devil
Eavesdropping
Envy
Ethics
Furnishings
Gossiping
Justice
Niches
Parlors
Pets
Tea parties
Truth
Woodward, John, 1665-1728

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings -- England -- London -- 1766
Poems
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1710

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

766.00.00.37 Impression 1

Orbis Record:

8424173

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr02596

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10713312

PID:

digcoll:940987