Image not available
Louis-Philippe Boitard
active 1733-1770
The Covt: Garden morning frolick / Invented & Engrav'd by L.P. Boitard.
Published
London : Publish'd According to Act of Parliamt, Octr. 9. 1747.
etching
image: 209 x 312 mm; platemark: 240 x 328 mm; sheet: 246 x 334 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2622
Notes
"Price One Shilling."
"The drunken trio has been identified as "Captain" Marcellus Laroon III (the artist), his friend Captain Montague and Bet Careless, the well-known courtesan; the link-boy is recognizable as 'Little Cazey.'"--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalog.
"The drunken trio has been identified as "Captain" Marcellus Laroon III (the artist), his friend Captain Montague and Bet Careless, the well-known courtesan; the link-boy is recognizable as 'Little Cazey.'"--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalog.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Summary
Satire on London life; early morning in the Piazza, Covent Garden, with night-time revellers, a man wielding a large artichoke and another sprawled on top of a sedan chair in which sleeps a woman whose breasts fall out of her bodice; they are led by a bare-foot link boy and a crowd of market people look on; in the background, St. Paul's church. Cf. British Museum online catalog.
Associated names
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Artist
Classification
Department
Century prints
Catalog link