Welladay, is this my son Tom [graphic].

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Title: Welladay, is this my son Tom [graphic].
Contributor: Grimm, Samuel Hieronymus, 1733-1794, artist.
Robert Sayer and John Bennett (Firm), publisher.
Published / Created: 29 Aug. 1774.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for R. Sayer & I. Bennet, No. 53 Fleet Street, London, as the act directs
Abstract: An old English farmer (left) dressed in top boots, breeches, a flat felt hat, and carrying a riding-whip arrives in town and is startled at seeing his son (right) dressed as a macaroni with very high toupée wig, a cane with a tassle, a sword, and a little cocked hat
Description: Title etched below image.
After a drawing by Grimm. This is a copy in reverse of Carington Bowles in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, no. 4536.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. ii.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 15 x 11.3 cm, on sheet 18 x 14 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1774
Mezzotints England London 1774
Material: mezzotint with etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Dandies
British
Farmers
Hairstyles
Staffs (Sticks)
Wigs
Subjects: Dandies > British
Farmers
Hairstyles
Staffs (Sticks)
Wigs
England > 1774
England > London > 1774

Access: Public
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