Framed Print: High Life At Midnight, 1769
Framed Print: High Life At Midnight, 1769
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Framed Print: High Life At Midnight, 1769

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Size:9" x 11"

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  • Title: High Life At Midnight, 1769
  • Description: Print shows a street scene: five upper class men and women returning home after an evening of entertainment are attacked by a group of lower class men armed with staffs intent on robbery. One of the well dressed men has received a blow to the head and has fallen to the ground where he is attended to by one of the women. One of the rogues is stabbed in the chest with a sword by another of the well dressed men; during this commotion a pickpocket calmly helps himself to the contents of the man's pocket. In the background, a woman is climbing out a window into her lover's arms and receives an accidental dousing with the contents of a chamber pot from the window above by her husband, wearing the horns of cuckoldry, when his attention is diverted by the altercation taking place nearby in the street.
  • Subjects: Adultery--England--1760-1770, Fighting--England--1760-1770, Robberies--England--1760-1770, Social classes--England--1760-1770
  • Collection: Cartoon Prints, British. The cartoon prints (approximately 8,500 distinct images) in the British Cartoon Prints Collection were published primarily between 1780 to 1830, an era dominated by the prodigious talents and prolific efforts of such famous caricaturists as James Gillray and George Cruikshank. The cartoons highlight aspects of British political life, including tensions with its colonies and other nations, as well as society, fashion, manners, and theater.
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