Welladay! Is this my son Tom! [graphic].

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Title: Welladay! Is this my son Tom! [graphic].
Contributor: Grimm, Samuel Hieronymus, 1733-1794, artist.
Published / Created: [25 June 1773]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: An old English farmer (left) dressed in top boots, breeches, a flat felt hat, and carrying a riding-whip arrives in town and is startled at seeing his son (right) dressed as a macaroni with very high toupée wig, a cane with a tassle, a sword, and a little cocked hat
Description: Title from caption below image.
Companion print to: Heyday! is this my daughter Anne.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark with loss of imprint.
Possibly after a drawing by Grimm. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v.4, no. 4536 for a similar print with the same title.
No. 5 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries.
Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Provenance: From the H.J. Peters sale, Sotheby's, lot 230; December 1960;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 15.7 x 13 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1773
Mezzotints England London 1773
Material: mezzotint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Dandies
British
Farmers
Hairstyles
Staffs (Sticks)
Wigs
Subjects: Dandies > British
Farmers
Hairstyles
Staffs (Sticks)
Wigs
England > 1773
England > London > 1773

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