We're all in the suds [graphic].

Description

Title: We're all in the suds [graphic].
Alternative Title: We are all in the suds
Contributor: Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, artist.
Bowles & Carver, publisher.
Published / Created: [ca. 1793]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Abstract: A three-quarter length view of a man in profile, looking left and holding a copy of the newspaper 'Gazette extraordinary' in his right hand and a shaving plate with a lump of soap and razor in his left hand. His features are highly caricatured
Description: Title etched below image.
Design attributed to Dighton in Sotheby's catalog.
Plate numbered '381' in lower left of plate.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
No. 12 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.
1 print : mezzotint with etching on wove paper ; sheet 14.5 x 11.0 cm.
Sheet trimmed with loss of number "381".
Provenance: From the H.J. Peters sale, Sotheby's, lot 230; December 1960;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 15 x 11.2 cm, on sheet 19 x 14 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1793
Mezzotints England London 1793
Material: mezzotint with etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Shaving equipment
Caricatures
Subjects: Shaving equipment
Caricatures
England > 1793
England > London > 1793

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