Heyday! Is this my daughter Anne! [graphic].

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Title: Heyday! Is this my daughter Anne! [graphic].
Contributor: Grimm, Samuel Hieronymus, 1733-1794, artist.
Published / Created: [approximately 1779]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: In avenue of trees, an old farmer's wife (right), dressed in black silk hat and mantle and muslin apron, starts back in astonishment at seeing her daughter (left) dressed in the extreme fashion of 1765-1775, with high hair and hat perching on top; to the left a black page boy holds the girl's lap-dog. In the distance on the left is a house with two gable windows
Description: Title from caption below image.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
"From an original drawing by Grimm." See Stephens.
Companion print of: Welladay! is this my son Tom!
Cf. "Be not amaz'd dear mother. It is indeed your daughter Anne" no. 4537 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires / F.G. Stephens, v. 4. Published by Carington Bowles in 1770.
No. 6 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 15.4 x 13 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1779
Mezzotints England London 1779
Material: mezzotint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
Subject (Topic): Black people
Clothing & dress
Dandies
British
Daughters
Dogs
Hairstyles
Servants
Mothers
Subjects: Black people
Clothing & dress > England > 1770-1780
Dandies > British
Daughters
Dogs
Hairstyles > England > 1770-1780
Servants
Mothers
England > 1779
England > London > 1779

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