High life at five in the morning, British Cartoon Print
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Print shows an interior view of a room; a duke has arrived home drunk at 5 a.m. to find his bedchamber occupied by another man. Through the open curtains around the bed can be seen a bare-breasted duchess. On the floor near the bed are two open books, "Memoirs of a woman of pleasure" and "Chastity in the nobility a frace". As the duke, with sword drawn, staggers forward, his rival climbs through a window in the background, leaving his clothes behind. A monkey dashes for the window on the heels of the husband's rival.
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament, May 1st 1769.
Captioned: A recent Transaction.
Price 1s, but given Gratis to the Purchasers of the Court Miscellany.
Includes 8 lines of verse: Persons in exalted Station / Should Patterns be of Imitation; / But if a DUKE must have his PUNK, / ... / What wonder if her wanton GRACE, / Invites Another in his Place? / ...
Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).
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