A couple flamboyantly dressed walk from left to right, followed by a footman who swaggers after them holding an umbrella resting against his shoulder, its ferrule end terminating in a small weather-vane. The man holds a quizzing-glass to his eye and a tasselled cane; the lady (left) holds a large fan, her left arm thrust through his right. He wears a large cocked hat, a bulky neck-cloth with floating ends, and loosely fitting half-boots. She wears a hat tied under her chin with vandyked trimmings and an enormous feather. A train trails on the ground. The servant wears a round hat with looped brim and cockade, enormous epaulettes, and a neck-cloth like his master's. The treatment is decorative, with no background.
Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.
Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.
People of consequence / O'Keefe invet. et sculp.
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People of consequence / O'Keefe invet. et sculp.
engraving
image: 21 x 31.5 cm; plate: 24 x 33.8 cm; sheet: 27 x 36.8 cm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2840
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[London] : H. Humphrey, No. 37, New Bond Street, Nov'r 15, 1794.
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Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
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