Nine tailors making a man!, or, Foreign habits for a native prince! [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- Nine tailors making a man!, or, Foreign habits for a native prince! [graphic]
- Alternative Title
- Foreign habits for a native prince!
- Creator
- Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker
- Contributor
- Sidebotham, J., publisher.
- Published / Created
- [approximately May] 1819.
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pubd. by Sidebethem [sic], 287 Strand
- Abstract
-
"The Regent, with one gouty foot, postures before a pier-glass which reflects his tight waist and spherical posteriors. His wig and whiskers are much exaggerated. All round him nine grotesque German tailors are at work or register admiration of the Prince; most of them are lean and moustached. Some sit cross-legged on the floor; one cuts from a roll of cloth assisted by a man with a yard-stick who says: "D--n de English Taylor, he not know how to handle de yard like de foreigner!" One irons a braided hussar jacket. On the floor: 'A List of Foreign Tailors recommended by Prince Esther Crazy to work for the R--t!' Nearer the Regent is 'A Goose!' with the adjacent inscription: '"To waste your time before a Glass / Exposes oft a monstrous Ass!' The Regent recites: "I begin to think that I'm a marvellous proper Man! "I'll have my Chambers hung with looking Glass And entertain a score or two of Tailors To study fashions to adorn my Body--""--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
-
Title etched below image.
Printmaker identified as Robert Cruikshank in the British Museum catalogue.
Approximate month of publication from the British Museum catalogue. - Provenance
- Grosvenor Prints; June 2024.
- Extent
- 1 print : plate mark 24.8 x 35 cm, on sheet 26.9 x 40 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 819.05.00.03+
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1819
Etchings England London 1819
Watermarks (Paper) G. & R. T. - Material
- etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
- George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
- Subject (Topic)
-
Gout
Mirrors
Buttocks
Tailoring
Irons (Pressing) - Subjects
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George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 > Caricatures and cartoons
Gout
Mirrors
Buttocks
Tailoring
Irons (Pressing)
England > 1819
England > London > 1819
G. & R. T.
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 17177853
- Object ID (OID)
- 33224152