[A real-scene on the parade at Bath] [graphic].

Description

Title: [A real-scene on the parade at Bath] [graphic].
Alternative Title: Pshaw, theres no trusting you macaronies
Creator: Wilson, James, active 1760-1780, printmaker
Contributor: Parker, Henry, 1725-1809, publisher.
Published / Created: publishd. 21 March 1772.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Henry Parker
Abstract: "Satire; an ugly old woman dressed in richly decorated black clothes, leering at a macaroni wearing a wig with an enormous looped queue, one hand on his shoulder while he lays one hand on his breast and smiles admiringly at her; a black page standing behind the old woman and a couple smiling at them as they pass by, in the background to right."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description: Title from later state.
Additional title from note below image, written in pencil and brown ink: Pshaw, theres no trusting you macaronies.
Printmaker from statement of responsibility on later state: Wilson delt. & fecit.
Early state, with scratched-letter publication statement only. For a later state with the title "A real-scene on the parade at Bath" and other lettering in lower margin, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.363.
Publisher from imprint on later state: London, Publish'd March 21st, 1772, by J. Parker, No. 82, Cornhill.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Female costume, 1772 -- Male headdresses.
Folded to 30.6 x 24.5 cm; mounted to 32 x 26 cm.
Mounted on page 289 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: With the armorial bookplates of "Fraser, of Ledeclune, baronet" and "Herbert Henry Raphael" in volume. Sold at Sotheby's, 22 April 1901, to Sotheran. Schatzki, lot 1193; June 1961;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 34.1 x 25 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: Page 289. 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?].