Such things are : Telles choses sont that such things are we must allow, but such things never were till now. [graphic]

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Title: Such things are : Telles choses sont that such things are we must allow, but such things never were till now. [graphic]
Alternative Title: Telles choses sont
Contributor: Mercer, Captain, artist.
Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [2 April 1787]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd April 2, 1787 by S.W. Fores at the Caricature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Abstract: A campanion piece to print of the same title which ridicules women's dress. This print shows four figures of dandies, one with a huge muff, one with a tall cane, all with the high waist, tight trousers, exaggerated ruffles at the neck, fashions that are all of the period
Description: Title etched below image.
Verses below title: That such things are we must allow, But such things never were till now.
Design attributed to Captain Mercer. According to Henry Angelo, a series of plates, four figures on each, was designed by Mercer, a military officer, with the title applied from Mrs. Inchbald's comedy. Cf. Angelo, H. Reminiscences of Henry Angelo, 1904, vol. 1, p. 328.
Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 35 x 24.8 cm.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Watermark: Curteis & Sons.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. iv.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 35.1x 25 cm, on sheet 37 x 27 cm
Language: English

Genre: Parodies, imitations, etc
Satires (Visual works) England 1787
Etchings England London 1787
Watermarks (Paper) Curteis & Sons
Material: etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
Subject (Name): Inchbald, Mrs., 1753-1821.
Subject (Topic): Clothing & dress
Dandies
British
Subjects: Inchbald, Mrs., 1753-1821 > Parodies, imitations, etc
Clothing & dress > England > 1780-1790
Dandies > British
England > 1787
England > London > 1787
Curteis & Sons

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