Taste in High Life
London: Boydell, c.1808. Notes: Caricature of the English elite during the early 19th century.
The work was intended to satirise the types of dress and garbs that were in fashion at the time, and the superficiality of the tastes and nature of the aristocracy in general. Several figures are seen in the painting, all of whom are dressed in heavily caricatured renditions of the fashion that reigned in the 1740s., Image Size : 357x445 (mm), 14.06x17.52 (Inches), Platemark Size : , Paper Size : 398x478 (mm), 15.67x18.82 (Inches), Coloring: Black & White, Medium: Steeple Engraving, Categories: Caricatures;. Very Good. Item #P4423
Notes: Caricature of the English elite during the early 19th century.
The work was intended to satirise the types of dress and garbs that were in fashion at the time, and the superficiality of the tastes and nature of the aristocracy in general. Several figures are seen in the painting, all of whom are dressed in heavily caricatured renditions of the fashion that reigned in the 1740s., Image Size : 357x445 (mm), 14.06x17.52 (Inches), Platemark Size : , Paper Size : 398x478 (mm), 15.67x18.82 (Inches), Coloring: Black & White, Medium: Steeple Engraving, Categories: Caricatures;.
Price: $375.00