"TASTE IN HIGH LIFE" WILLIAM HOGARTH, C.1742.

C.1742.  Hogarth’s critique of the extreme fashions of the aristocracy and of their culture in general. A lady wears a hoop skirt of near tent proportions decorated with roses of obscene proportions. She addresses a man holding a tea cup of wafer size. Above, a picture of a woman wearing a similarly out sized skirt made without a back, revealing her bare buttocks. At left, a woman of fashion grips a black slave by the chin while he smiles, contemplating the slavery to fashion that his hosts have submitted themselves to. 18 ¾” x 15 3/8” plate size. Archivally double matted to 20” x 23” for framing and shrink wrapped.