Footman [graphic]

Description

Title: Footman [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Published / Created: [30 August 1799]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. Augt. 30, 1799, by R. Akerman, N. 101 Strand
Abstract: "A foppish footman (left) wearing a cutaway livery coat with pantaloons, bunch of seals, and other fashionable trappings, holds a nosegay, admiring himself in a wall-mirror: "This I think will strike the Female Villager, the dear smiling rogues will never be able to resist the little Jenny Seequy of my dress and manners." An ape on a chain (right) seems to imitate his pose. Two country servants (right) gaze angrily at him: a footman (right) says: "Nan did'st ever see such a conceited Monkey! old Jack the Baboon is a fool to urn!!" She says: "The house will be turned topsy turvy by these Lunneners."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Series title and number etched above image.
Temporary local subject terms: Domestic service: footmen -- Servants -- Nosegays -- Furnishings: wall mirror -- Console-table -- Pets: monkey -- Slang: "Jenny Seequy" (Je ne sais quoi) -- Slang: "Lunneners" (Londoners) -- Male costume: seals.
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 22.2 x 18 cm.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of series title and number.
Mounted on verso of leaf 37 of volume 6 of 14 volumes.
Provenance: From a collection in fourteen volumes compiled by Francis Harvey and dispersed at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Sold at Sotheby, London, 12 March 1919. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 24.5 x 20 cm, on sheet 28 x 21 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English