[A real-scene on the parade at Bath] [graphic].
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33182367
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?].
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Satires (Visual works) England 1772
Mezzotints England London 1772
Annotations (Provenance) - Material
- mezzotint ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Geographic)
- Bath (England),
- Subject (Topic)
-
Blacks
Dandies
British
Wigs
Older people
Courtship
Couples
Servants - Subjects
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Bath (England)
Blacks
Dandies > British
Wigs
Older people
Courtship
Couples
Servants
England > 1772
England > London > 1772
Raphael, Herbert H. > Ownership
Fraser, William Augustus Sir, 1826-1898 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 16237282
- Object ID (OID)
- 33182367