Taylor turn'd lord [graphic]

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Title: Taylor turn'd lord [graphic]
Alternative Title: Taylor turned lord
Tailor turned lord
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created: [1812]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: An obese man in elegant dress struts down Fleet Street as his fellow tailors roar with laughter at his pompous attire. In the background, a woman (his wie?) put signs on the sides of the shops advertising breeches and other haberdashery. A dog barks as he looks up at the elegantly dressed pretender
Description: Title etched below image.
A detail from a 1805 print by Rowlandson: Recovery of a dormant title, or, A breeches maker become a lord.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 29 x 21.9 cm.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted on leaf 28 of volume 8 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 30.1 x 23 cm, on sheet 34 x 25 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1812
Etchings England London 1812
Stipple engravings England London 1812
Material: etching with stipple ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Butchers
Couples
Dogs
Social classes
Social mobility
Snobbishness
Tailors
Subjects: Butchers
Couples
Dogs
Social classes
Social mobility
Snobbishness
Tailors
England > 1812
England > London > 1812
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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