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The Unpleasant Rencontre.

The Unpleasant Rencontre.

Design'd & Etch'd by D.T. Egerton.
London, Published by Tho.s McLean, 126, Haymarket, 1824.
Coloured aquatint. 210 x 270mm (8½ x 10¾") with wide margins. Slight stain through title, stitch marks in left margin, tear in bottom margin.
A scene from 'Fashionable Bores; or Coolers in High Life by Peter Quiz'. A woman, accompanied by her black steward, encounters her fiancé coming out of the 'Temple of Venus' (brothel). To the man this is a bore because the impending nuptials were what kept the creditors away. Daniel Thomas Egerton (1797-1842), satirist and landscape painter, murdered while living in Mexico, shortly after publishing 'Egerton's Views in Mexico'.
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