Refin'd taste [graphic]

Description

Title: Refin'd taste [graphic]
Alternative Title: Refined taste
Contributor: Mansergh, Richard St. George, active 1772-1778, artist.
Darly, M. publisher.
Published / Created: [approximately May 1773]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: M. Darly
Abstract: "A civilian (right) standing in profile to the left gazes through a glass at a tall and bulky soldier in uniform (left) who stands in back view, turning his head in profile to the right towards the civilian. The civilian is fashionably dressed wearing a bag-wig and sword, a cane under his arm. The soldier wears jack-boots and holds a long sword under his arm."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description: Title etched below image.
Publisher and date of publication from description of reissue published by R. Sayer; see no. 5173 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Four lines of verse in two columns below title: Eternal Infamy, that Wretch Confound, Who Planted first this Vice on English Ground, A Crime that spite of Sense & Nature reigns, And Poisons Genial Love & Manhood stains. Vide Rod. Random (i.e., Roderick Random by Tobias Smollett).
Plate numbered "V. 2" in upper left corner and "6" in upper right corner.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. ii; May 1954 ;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 17.8 x 25 cm, on sheet 19 x 26 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 773.05.00.02
Collection Title: Leaf 44. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Collection Date: [London] : Pubd. by Mary Darly, Jany. 1, 1776.

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1773
Etchings England London 1773
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Dandies
British
Soldiers
Daggers & swords
Military uniforms
Staffs (Sticks)
Subjects: Dandies > British
Soldiers
Daggers & swords
Military uniforms > British
Staffs (Sticks)
England > 1773
England > London > 1773

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