Footman [graphic]

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Title: Footman [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Published / Created: [30 August 1799]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. Augt. 30, 1799, by R. Akerman, N. 101 Strand
Abstract: "A foppish footman (left) wearing a cutaway livery coat with pantaloons, bunch of seals, and other fashionable trappings, holds a nosegay, admiring himself in a wall-mirror: "This I think will strike the Female Villager, the dear smiling rogues will never be able to resist the little Jenny Seequy of my dress and manners." An ape on a chain (right) seems to imitate his pose. Two country servants (right) gaze angrily at him: a footman (right) says: "Nan did'st ever see such a conceited Monkey! old Jack the Baboon is a fool to urn!!" She says: "The house will be turned topsy turvy by these Lunneners."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Series title and number etched above image.
Temporary local subject terms: Domestic service: footmen -- Servants -- Nosegays -- Furnishings: wall mirror -- Console-table -- Pets: monkey -- Slang: "Jenny Seequy" (Je ne sais quoi) -- Slang: "Lunneners" (Londoners) -- Male costume: seals.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. viii.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 24.5 x 20 cm, on sheet 28 x 21 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1799
Etchings England London 1799
Watermarks (Paper) Russell & Co.
Material: etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1799
England > London > 1799
Russell & Co.
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

Access: Public
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