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Return from a Masquerade - a morning scene   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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After: Robert Dighton

Published by: Carington Bowles
Title
Return from a Masquerade - a morning scene
Description
English: Two grinning chairmen, walking diagonally right to left. towards the spectator, carry a sedan-chair, from the side window of which hang the head and shoulders of a lady, asleep or drunk, her left arm hanging down outside the chair. She is dressed as a shepherdess, a garland of flowers in her hair; in her right hand is a crook which also projects through the window. Beside the chair (right) walks a little grinning chimney-sweep, very broad and short, with soot-bag and brush, but with a striped turban or cloth on his head and holding up a smiling mask. The chair is crossing an open space or wide street, probably Covent Garden, with houses in the background. 1784
Hand-coloured mezzotint
Date 1784
date QS:P571,+1784-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 349 millimetres
Width: 249 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1935,0522.1.206
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) A chimney-sweeper was a not unusual character at a masquerade, and it was sometimes said that real sweeps, butchers, &c, posing as masks, visited masquerades.

(Supplementary information) Dighton's original watercolour for this print from the collection of Mr Jeffrey Rose was sold at Sotheby's, 23 February 1978, lot 74.

An impression with Andrew Edmunds in 2015 was dated 2 February 1784.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1935-0522-1-206
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