[High life below stairs] [graphic] / Mr. Orde del. ; Js. Bretherton f.

Published/Created:

[London]
[publisher not identified]
[1774]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching and drypoint on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 26.7 x 29 cm, on sheet 28.0 x 31 cm

Notes:

Title and publication date from later state.
Early state. For later state with title, imprint, and other text added below image, see Lewis Walpole call no.: Bunbury 774.02.23.01.2+.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right side of upper edge.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Theater: High life below stairs -- Amateur theatricals.
Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. iv.
Imperfect; printmaker's signature mostly erased from lower right corner of sheet.
An additional shelf with five plates added in watercolor to upper left corner of design.
Title added below image in a contemporary hand: High life below stairs.
Lines of dialogue added below image in a contemporary hand: Blackee you go! Cook, Sambo, answer the door. Cookey you go!

Abstract:

A bench in a kitchen on which are seated, from left to right: a coachman half asleep, in brown breeches and waistcoat and green coat, his stockings falling down; a huge cook seated facing us, arms akimbo, in brown, with a blue and white kerchief; and a rather drowsy black boy in brown breeches and green waistcoat with sleeves. A shelf with pots and pans on it is on the wall to the left. At the extreme right is a grandfather clock, brown with a yellow face. There are two drawings pinned to the wall, the top one of a fat gentleman in blue asleep in a chair, the other of a bald man in brown.

Associated Names:

Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806 [Printmaker]
Orde, Thomas, Baron Bolton, 1746-1807 [Artist]

Topics:

Servants
Theatrical productions -- England -- 1774

Language:

English

Genre:

Annotations (Provenance) -- 18th century
Drypoints -- England -- London -- 1774
Etchings -- England -- London -- 1774
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1774

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html

Call Number:

Bunbury 774.02.23.01.1+

Orbis Record:

10132579

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr03818

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10716274

PID:

digcoll:291921