A fashionable suit! [graphic]

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11791800

Description

Title
A fashionable suit! [graphic]
Creator
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor
Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Published / Created
[1 October 1799]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
Pubd. Oct. 1st, 1799, by R. Akerman, No. 101 Strand
Abstract

A satire on the new fashion of Jean Debry coats: A tailor holds a mirror to a customer who looks at his image with horror. The customer complains that he has put a hump upon each shoulder. The tailor replies that the coat has been made to his wife's specifications

Description
Title etched below image.
Series title and number etched above print.
Earlier state, with imprint. Cf. No. 9625 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7.
Earlier state described by Joseph Grego in Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 15.
1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 21.6 x 19.4 cm, on sheet 23.9 x 21.6 cm.
Mounted on leaf 6 of volume 7 of 14 volumes.
Provenance
From a collection in fourteen volumes compiled by Francis Harvey and dispersed at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Sold at Sotheby, London, 12 March 1919. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
Extent
1 print : plate mark 21.6 x 19.3 cm, on sheet 27 x 21 cm
Extent of Digitization
This object has been completely digitized.
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number
Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 7

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Satires (Visual works) England 1799
Etchings England London 1799
Watermarks (Paper)
Material
etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Geographic)
England
Subject (Topic)
Clothing & dress
Mirrors
Tailors
Subjects
Clothing & dress > England > 1790-1800
Mirrors
Tailors
England > 1799
England > London > 1799
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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Rights
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Identifiers

Orbis Record
8203114
Object ID (OID)
11791800

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