La poule [graphic]

Description

Title: La poule [graphic]
Creator: Heath, William, 1795-1840, artist
Contributor: McLean, T. publisher.
Published / Created: 1827.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket
Description: Title from caption below image.
Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella.
Text above image: Quadrille. Evening fashions. Dedicated to the heads of the nation.
Two lines of verse on both sides of title: "Nature, I thought, perform'd too mean a parte, Forming her movements to the rules of art, And Vex'd I found the dandy barbers hand, Had o'er the dancers heads too great command. Prior".
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xix, p. 135.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 26.2 x 38 cm, on sheet 28 x 40 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1827
Etchings England London 1827
Artists' devices
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
Subject (Topic): Clothing & dress
Beards
Couples
Dandies
Dance
Subjects: Clothing & dress > England > 1820-1830
Beards
Couples
Dandies
Dance
England > 1827
England > London > 1827

Access: Public
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