You Searched For
1 entry found
Search Results
1. The inflexible porter a tragedy / [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [between 1820 and 1840]
- Call Number:
- Bunbury 801.07.21.03+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The roofed gateway of a great man's house. In front of an archway (left) through which appears a staircase, an obese porter stands in profile to the right, lifting up both hands to show the impossibility of access to his master. He is addressing a would-be visitor, middle-aged and stout, who faces him with an insinuating smile, hat in hat, pointing with his right hand towards his companion, a slim young man (right), who stands full-face, his right hand in his breeches pocket. The young man is dressed like, and resembles, the 'Modern Fine Gentleman' in British Museum Satires No. 6342, a companion print. His right hand is in his breeches pocket, his left, holding his hat, rests on the head of his tall cane."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Reissue, with new imprint statement added below image in lower left; previous imprint "London, Publish'd Marh. 24th, 1783, by J.R. Smith, N. 83 opposite [the] Pantheon, Oxford Street" still present below title. Cf. No. 6343 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Date of publication based on publisher's street address. See British Museum online catalogue., Companion print to: Front, side view, and back front, of a modern fine gentleman., and Figures identified by ms. notes in pencil at bottom of sheet.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress, Porters, and Stairways
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The inflexible porter a tragedy / [graphic]
