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A well-known macaroni making love to the famous Poll Kennedy   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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A well-known macaroni making love to the famous Poll Kennedy
Description
English: Probably from a magazine. A woman elaborately dressed in the fashion of the day sits on a high-backed sofa of an ornate French design. On his knees before her, his hands clasped in supplication, is a man wearing the ribbon of an order. He is elaborately dressed in the French fashion with high toupet wig, exaggerated black bag, fringed waistcoat, feathered hat. His hat is on the ground. On the back of the sofa sits a monkey, his hair in a high toupet in imitation of that of the man and the woman. He regards the suitor through an eye-glass. The room is panelled, and furnished in the contemporary French fashion. On the wall are a picture of a nymph and satyr, and a clock on a carved bracket. c. 1773
Etching and some engraving
Depicted people Representation of: Polly Kennedy
Date 1773
date QS:P571,+1773-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 160 millimetres
Width: 95 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1866,1208.884
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935)

Polly Kennedy, a well-known courtesan, described in 'Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies' for 1773, has been confused with Kitty Kennedy, see BMSat 5095. H. Bleackley, 'Ladies Fair and Frail', 316-18.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1866-1208-884
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