High life at noon,1769,Adultery,England,Social Life,women,Tea Party,Clergy

Title: High life at noon
Date Created/Published: 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...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:
Price 1s, but given Gratis to the Purchasers of the Court Miscellany.
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; / ...
Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).
Subjects:
Adultery--England--1760-1770.
Women--Social life--England--1760-1770.
Clergy--England--1760-1770.
Tea parties--England--1760-1770.
Cartoons (Commentary)--British--1760-1770.
Intaglio prints--British--1760-1770.
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