2-636-837 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'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]