Steel buttons Coup de bouton / [graphic] =

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Title: Steel buttons Coup de bouton / [graphic] =
Alternative Title: Coup de bouton
Creator: Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, printmaker
Contributor: Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, publisher.
Published / Created: [29 April 1777]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. 29 April, 1777 by W. Humphrey, Gerrard Street, Soho
Abstract: In a park with trees, a fashionably dressed man and woman encounter each other near the footpath. The man wears a sword, large shoe-buckles, and enormous buttons which flash at the lady who recoils from their brightness. She is dressed in a tight-waisted dress of the period, with cork bustle and she wears her hair in high pyramidal style, topped by a hat with long feathers
Description: Title from item.
Printmaker's name from British Museum catalogue.
Trimmed within plate mark; from worn plate with maker's name not visible.
In laid to 29 x 37 cm.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 25 x 30 cm.
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1777
Engravings England London 1777
Etchings England London 1777
Material: etching with roulette ;
Subject (Geographic): England
Subject (Topic): Buttons (Fasteners)
Clothing & dress
Dandies
British
Hairstyles
Staffs (Sticks)
Subjects: Buttons (Fasteners)
Clothing & dress > England > 1770-1780
Dandies > British
Hairstyles > England > 1770-1780
Staffs (Sticks)
England > 1777
England > London > 1777

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