Taste a-la-mode, 1745 [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- Taste a-la-mode, 1745 [graphic]
- Creator
- Patton, Francis, printmaker
- Contributor
- Boitard, Louis-Philippe, active 1733-1770, artist.
- Published / Created
- publish'd according to act of Parliament, Septr. 12th, 1745.
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- publisher not identified
- Abstract
-
"Satire on fashion showing a crowd of people in St James's Park in front of Buckingham House. In the centre is a short, fat women wearing a large hooped skirt and saque, a lace cap and black lace mittens, and carrying a closed fan. On the left a young country gentleman, wearing a quilted waistcoat and holding a riding whip, is arm in arm with fashionably dressed man who seems to be showing him the promenade, they both wear breeches that end above the knee and high-heeled shoes with large tongues; the latter leers at a young woman, apparently a prostitute, wearing a straw hat with a soft brim who lifts her huge hooped skirt to reveal her ankle. She is walking with another young woman wearing a dark cloak with a hood; she wears a small cap and her hair is dressed in ringlets. In the centre, behind the fat woman, two men embrace, one of whom wears an eye patch. Another young woman, dressed in a similar fashion to the fat woman, stands to her right; behind her is another young woman wearing a hat with a very large brim. Next are two more young men,wearing large tricorne hats, tight coats the skirts of which open out in pleats below the waist, and high-heeled shoes one apparently pointing out matters of interest to the other who is possibly a young officer as he wears a sword and a cockade in his hat; his hair or wig is dressed in a large bag-wig. On the far right, a soldeir wearing large riding boots, walks away with a young woman wearing a laced hat."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
-
Title engraved below image.
Probably a later state, with printseller's statement burnished from plate. For a variant state with "Sold by C. Moseley, engraver & printseller in Round Court in the Strand" following price statement, see No. 2774 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 3.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
"Price 6d."--Following imprint.
1 print : etching and engraving ; sheet 22.6 x 31.6 cm.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge.
On laid paper and mounted to 26 x 32 cm.
Mounted opposite page 1 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?]. - Provenance
- Mounted in a volume with the armorial bookplates of "Fraser, of Ledeclune, baronet" and "Herbert Henry Raphael". Sold at Sotheby's 22 April 1901 to Sotheran. Schatzki, lot 1193; June 1961;
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 23 x 33 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Quarto 724 771N
- Collection Title
- Opposite page 1. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
- Collection / Other Creator
- King, Richard, Esq.
- Collection Date
- London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Satires (Visual works) England 1745
Engravings England London 1745
Etchings England London 1745
Watermarks (Paper) - Material
- etching and engraving ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Geographic)
-
Saint James's Park (London, England),
England
London. - Subject (Name)
- Buckingham Palace (London, England),
- Subject (Topic)
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Clothing & dress
Crowds
Fans (Accessories)
Military uniforms
British
Parks - Subjects
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Buckingham Palace (London, England)
Saint James's Park (London, England)
Clothing & dress > England > 1740-1750
Crowds
Fans (Accessories)
Military uniforms > British
Parks > England > London
England > 1745
England > London > 1745
Raphael, Herbert H. > Ownership
Fraser, William Augustus Sir, 1826-1898 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 8775574
- Object ID (OID)
- 33182294