A touch of the times,c1720,woman playing cards with monkey,cuckold,owl smoking

Title: A touch of the times
Date Created/Published: [ca. 1720]
Summary: Print shows a woman playing cards with a monkey dressed as a man, two figures in masquerade attend to them, above and in the background are a musician, a man and a woman, and a cuckold, also seated is an owl smoking a pipe.
Notes:
Includes verse: Behold the ages pleasant sceen displayed, / The antick world in it's true maskerade, / My lady with Sr. Monkey holds the cards, / Whilst city dame a better sport regards, / Buffons do gulk those who pretend to w[...], / Whilst the grave owle do's over see'r sit [...].
Sold by P. Bouche, in Tower Street, in St. Gilses in [?] fields, over aginst [?] Falcon, London.
Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).
Subjects:
Women--Social life--England--1710-1730.
Animals in human situations--1710-1730.
Gambling--England--1710-1730.
Card games--England--1710-1730.
Cartoons (Commentary)--British--1710-1730.
Etchings--British--1710-1730.
Bookmark /2002719527/
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