Taste a-la-mode, 1751 [graphic]

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Title: Taste a-la-mode, 1751 [graphic]
Alternative Title: Gout a la mode en MDCCLI
Creator: Patton, Francis, printmaker
Contributor: Griffin, E. publisher.
Pite, B., artist.
Published / Created: [1751]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd according to act of Parliament, sold by E. Griffin next the Globe Tavern, Fleet Street
Abstract: A scene in a park showing a number of elegantly dressed men and women walking and bowing and greeting each other. In the background are several buildings, one of which has scaffolding erected in front of it.
Description: Title from impression at the Library of Congress.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of title above image.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Identifications of the Duke of Cumberland and Chevalier Descazeau added in contemporary hand below image.
Window mounted to 28 x 39 cm.
Watermark: Strasburg bend.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. i, p. 98; May 1954;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 24 x 34 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1751
Etchings England London 1751
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching with engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765
Du Halley, Michel Descazeaux, 1710-1775
Subjects: William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765 > Caricatures and cartoons
Du Halley, Michel Descazeaux, 1710-1775 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1751
England > London > 1751

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