Image: The Female Coterie (BM 1868,0808.9914 1)
Description: Satire on the Coterie, a society of ladies and gentlemen, presumably the one about which Horace Walpole wrote to George Montague on 6 May 1770. People are gambling for high stakes ("Mortgage", "£50,000", a jewelled necklace), cheating at cards, flirting, drinking, kissing; a lady holds up a miniature of her husband while embracing another man who makes the sign of the cuckold behind the portrait; a couple are heading up a staircase. Illustration to the London Magazine, 1770. Etching and engraving
Title: The Female Coterie
Credit: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-9914
Permission: © The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
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