Monkeys in Love

J.Lewis Marks

Monkeys in Love

London, J.L.Marks ca. 1828

Etching

Original hand colouring

195 x 240 mm

£160

Below the main title;

She never told her Love,

But let concealment like a wormi’the bud

Feed on her damask Cheek.

A satire on fashion.

Two fashionably dressed monkeys stand on a patterend carpet with a drape to one side. He is bowing towards her, top hat in hand with left arm folded across his breast. She stands facing the front, hands on her hips, looking shyly away from him.