Delpini à la Rossi [graphic]

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Title: Delpini à la Rossi [graphic]
Creator: Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Contributor: Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, publisher.
Published / Created: [26 April 1785]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published 26th April 1785 by Jas. Bretherton
Abstract: "Delpini, dressed as a woman, both arms held above his head, runs forward in profile to the left imitating a dancer."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Signed with the monogram of James Sayers.
One line of quoted text following title: "Grace was in all her steps" &c.
1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper ; plate mark 27.4 x 20.2 cm, on sheet 29.5 x 22 cm.
Mounted on verso of leaf 30 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Provenance: Bequeathed by James Sayers to his sister and later given to Lord Eldon. Purchased from Christie's sale of Fine Books and Manuscripts, lot 305, 19 June 2012, with Lord Eldon's notebook (now LWL Mss Vol. 202).
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 27.5 x 20.2 cm, on sheet 39 x 31 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1785
Etchings England London 1785
Material: etching with stipple ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Delpini, Mr. -1828 (Carlo Antonio),
Subject (Topic): Cross dressing
Opera singers
Stages (Platforms)
Subjects: Delpini, Mr. (Carlo Antonio), -1828 > Caricatures and cartoons
Cross dressing
Opera singers
Stages (Platforms)
England > 1785
England > London > 1785
Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838 > Ownership
Sayers, James, 1748-1823 > Ownership

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