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Florio.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: John Barlow

Published by: Hannah Humphrey
Title
Florio.
Description
English: The interior of a drawing-room or boudoir. A fashionably dressed young man sits in an arm-chair, his right arm over its back, his right leg over an arm, contemplating his reflection in an oval wall-mirror (left). His hair is puffed out all round his face, and is arranged in a horizontal roll or curl which rests on his shoulders, with a queue or bag-wig hanging from below the curl. He holds a cane in his right hand, a round hat in his left. On the wall is a picture of a woman or nymph reclining under trees. A striped sofa and striped wall-paper complete the design. Beneath the title is engraved:



Twas doing Nothing was his curse,
Is there a vice can plague us worse?
Florio, page 6.'

From Hannah More's 'Florio', published in 1786 with the better-known 'Bas-Bleu':

'Florio, a youth of gay renown
Who figur'd much about the Town.' 12 March 1786


Etching
Date 1786
date QS:P571,+1786-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 217 millimetres
Width: 174 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
J,2.53
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938)

He was the typical idle lounger of the day; see 'A Later Pepys', ed. Gaussen, 1904, ii. 221-2.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_J-2-53
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