Miss Lovejoy.
Pub accor to Act Feby. 9th 1772 by MDarly Strand.
Etching, 170 x 125mm. 6¾ x 5".
A prostitute with hair dressed high with tight curls at the side, wearing a fur-bordered cloak with a hood over a frilled and flounced petticoat with a looped-up train. Her hands are in a muff trimmed with frills of ribbon. A double row of pearls or beads is round her neck. A well known house of ill-repute in the Piazza, Covent Garden, was known as Lovejoy's. From 'Caricatures, Macaronies & Characters by sundry ladies gentlemen artists &c.', in an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates. Numbered 'V.2' upper left and '12' upper right.
BM Satires: 4995.
[Ref: 14173] £160.00
Etching, 170 x 125mm. 6¾ x 5".
A prostitute with hair dressed high with tight curls at the side, wearing a fur-bordered cloak with a hood over a frilled and flounced petticoat with a looped-up train. Her hands are in a muff trimmed with frills of ribbon. A double row of pearls or beads is round her neck. A well known house of ill-repute in the Piazza, Covent Garden, was known as Lovejoy's. From 'Caricatures, Macaronies & Characters by sundry ladies gentlemen artists &c.', in an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates. Numbered 'V.2' upper left and '12' upper right.
BM Satires: 4995.
[Ref: 14173] £160.00