Title

'Taste in High Life', 1798. Artist: Samuel Phillips.

Caption

'Taste in High Life', 1798. A satire on affected manners. A man holds a saucer and a woman daintily holds the teacup. Another woman tickles a black servant under the chin. A monkey with a monocle reads from a list. Pictures on the wall behind send up exaggerated fashions in dresses and wigs. After William Hogarth's oil on canvas painting of c1742. From William Hogarth, by Austin Dobson. [Hachette Et Cie, Paris, 1904]
The Print Collector collection

Date

1798

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19C77_408

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

66,2Mb (4,7Mb) / 17,6in x 14,6in / 5268 x 4391 (300dpi)

Keywords

animal England female women woman people male interior indoors job man men fashion arts paintings country art guy costume occupation British monkey English humour dress location century Britain profession inside manners taste wig lady concept georgian B&W servant cartoon high life MONOCHROME black & white black and white B W 18th century Eighteenth Century satire satirical The Print Collector affectation William Hogarth satire Henry Austin Dobson Hogarth William W Hogarth Henry Austin Dobson Austin Dobson Samuel Phillips Phillips Samuel Henry Austin Dobson satire