Pub.d Accor.g to Act Nov.r 3 1773 by MDarly Strand.
Etching. 175 x 245mm (7 x 9¾").
Two figures in profile face each other for a minuet dance in a panelled interior, satirising a nabob (a man who had gained significant wealth with the East India Company) and his wife, preparing for their new place in society. From an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates. Numbered '18' upper left and 'V.2' upper right.
BM Satires: 5174.
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