Steel buttons Coup de bouton / [graphic] =Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, printmaker[29 April 1777]engIn 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 feathersTitle from item.Printmaker's name from British Museum catalogue.Trimmed within plate mark; from worn plate with maker's name not visible.