The flight of fashion [graphic]

Description

Title: The flight of fashion [graphic]
Creator: Phillips, John, fl. 1825-1831, artist
Contributor: Gans, S., active 1829-1831, publisher.
Published / Created: [August 1829]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published August 1829 by S. Gans, 15 Southampton Street, Strand ...
Description: Title from text in center of design.
Print signed using an imitation of William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella.
Printmaker tentatively identified as Sharpshooter = John Phillips. See British Museum catalogue.
Imprint continues: ... (sole publisher of Paul Prys caricatures).
Design divided into upper and lower halves by the title, imprint, artist's device, and inscriptions.
Text alongside artist's device: The park last evening presented the most frightful, at the same time a most ludicrous, scene owing to the atmosphere's sudden change of temperature ...
Text above image: A peep at Hop-tons. The sleeves are "all in all we shall ne'er look upon their like again."
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xx, p. 135-136.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 30.8 x 43 cm, on sheet 32 x 44 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1829
Etchings England London 1829
Artists' devices
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1829
England > London > 1829

Access: Public
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