I'm the thing, a'n't I? [graphic].

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Title: I'm the thing, a'n't I? [graphic].
Contributor: Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, artist.
Bowles & Carver, publisher.
Published / Created: [25 April 1791]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Abstract: Design in an oval; a copy of British Museum satire no. 7790 with the title "a beau". A half-length portrait of a man directed to the left but looking to the right with a slight smile on his face. His hair is very frizzed out beneath his hat and tied in a queue. He wears a coat with a high collar, a fringed cravat tied in a bow. His coat is buttoned at the waist. His right hand is gloved and holds a single eyeglass to his right eye. Under his left arn is a small cane or riding-whip
Description: Title from text below image.
After Dighton. See British Museum catalogue.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed with loss of plate numbering and date erased from sheet. Plate number and publication date supplied from British Museum catalogue.
Numbered '364' in lower left corner.
No. 17 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 14.8 x 12 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1791
Mezzotints England London 1791
Material: mezzotint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Dandies
British
Eyeglasses
Subjects: Dandies > British
Eyeglasses
England > 1791
England > London > 1791

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