A fashionably dressed young man pays a visit to his friend in the Temple, but the friend claims he cannot receive him as has a male visitor, concealing the fact that has a woman in his chambers. Etching, 1803.
- Date:
- Novr.1 1803
- Reference:
- 32951i
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One sense of "Templar" is "A barrister or other person who occupies chambers in the Inner or Middle Temple" (Oxford English dictionary). The woman has left her slippers in the doorway and is reflected in the mirror in the room across the corridor
Publication/Creation
London (53, Fleet Street) : Laurie & Whittle, Novr.1 1803.
Physical description
1 print : etching ; image 17.2 x 23.5 cm
Lettering
A morning visit to a young Templar. " I am glad to see you dear Tom, but you must excuse me asking you in this morning - I've a particular quiz with me; an old Colonel & he hates strangers". - "O'very well my boy I'll excuse you: I suppose he was here last night; I see his boots".
References note
British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. VIII, London 1947, no. 10216
Reference
Wellcome Collection 32951i
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