Scene in the School for Scandal. "Lady Teazel! by all that's Damnable."

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• PUBLISHER: London, Printed for R.Sayer and J.Bennett, Map, Chart & Printsellers & Globe-makers, No. 53, Fleet Street, as the Act directs, Dec.r 5.th 1783.

• MEDIUM: Mezzotint.

  DATE: 1783.

• EDITION SIZE: Image size 18 1/8 x 9 7/8" (33.4 x 25 cm)

• DESCRIPTION: The School for Scandal is a play written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan and first performed in London at the Drury Lane Theartre on May 8, 1777.<br><br> This play is considered to be one of the greatest 18th-century theatre productions and is sometimes described as the greatest comedy of manners in the English language.<br><br> The scene depicted comes from Act IV Scene III in which Lady Teazel has just been discovered after the screen that she had been hiding behind fell. She had been listening in on a conversation happening between Sir Peter (her husband), Charles and Joseph. Sir Peter and Charles were accusing Joseph of having an affair with Lady Teazel. All the while, Joseph is proclaiming his innocence and maddening Lady Teazel . In this dramatic end of Act IV she denounces Joseph and exits; leaving Joseph to explain himself to the enraged Sir Peter.

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• CONDITION: Good condition save for some soft foxing. Full original hand coloring. Some residue of old mounting on verso.

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• CATEGORIES: 18th-19th Century Subjects , Caricatures and Satirical