The Cov: Garden Morning Frolick. Gaillardise du Commun Jardin.
Invented & Engrav'd by L. P. Boitard.
Invented & Engrav'd by L. P. Boitard Publish'd According to Act of Parliam.t. Octr. 9. 1747 Price Six Pence. Sold by C. Moseley Engraver & Printseller in Round Court in ye Strand.
Scarce engraving. 240 x 325mm (9½ x 12¾"). Narrow margins, notch in bottom edge, stains in top corners, laid on card at margins.
A scene of three drunken revellers in the centre of Covent Garden. In a sedan chair carried by two exhausted chairmen is Betty Careless (c.1704-1739), a brothel-keeper. Seated on the chair's roof is Captain 'Mad' Montague, said to be the brother of the 4th Earl of Sandwich. Behind, carrying an artichoke presumably stolen from a street vendor, is Marcellus Laroon III, painter and army officer. Before the chair is Laurence Casey (known as Little Cazey), the personal linkboy of Careless. Henry Fielding, novellist and magistrate at Bow Street, complained that Montague, Laroon and Casey were 'the three most troublesome and difficult to manage of all my Bow Street visitors'. Casey was transported to America in 1750. This state has Moseley's inscription added.
BM Satire 2877.
[Ref: 64201] £480.00
Invented & Engrav'd by L. P. Boitard Publish'd According to Act of Parliam.t. Octr. 9. 1747 Price Six Pence. Sold by C. Moseley Engraver & Printseller in Round Court in ye Strand.
Scarce engraving. 240 x 325mm (9½ x 12¾"). Narrow margins, notch in bottom edge, stains in top corners, laid on card at margins.
A scene of three drunken revellers in the centre of Covent Garden. In a sedan chair carried by two exhausted chairmen is Betty Careless (c.1704-1739), a brothel-keeper. Seated on the chair's roof is Captain 'Mad' Montague, said to be the brother of the 4th Earl of Sandwich. Behind, carrying an artichoke presumably stolen from a street vendor, is Marcellus Laroon III, painter and army officer. Before the chair is Laurence Casey (known as Little Cazey), the personal linkboy of Careless. Henry Fielding, novellist and magistrate at Bow Street, complained that Montague, Laroon and Casey were 'the three most troublesome and difficult to manage of all my Bow Street visitors'. Casey was transported to America in 1750. This state has Moseley's inscription added.
BM Satire 2877.
[Ref: 64201] £480.00