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1. Chevalier de l'etoil polaire [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [7 March 1773]
- Call Number:
- Folio 72 771 D37 v.6 plate 11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The standing figure of a man whose head is that of a double-headed animal, to the left an ass, to the right a bear. With his left hand (which also holds a whip) he leads an elephant whose head and trunk appear from the right. His right hand rests on the pinnacle of a Chinese pagoda ornamented with dragons. Suspended round his neck is the figure of a bear showing that he has the Swedish order of the Polar Star. He wears tartan trousers."--British Museum online catalogue and "A satire on Sir William Chambers, illustrating in detail Mason's 'Heroic Epistle to Sir William Chambers, Knight,...' which had just appeared, and opens 'Knight of the Polar Star'; it is both a political satire and an attack on Chambers' Dissertation on Oriental Gardening and on the Chinese pagoda which he had built at Kew for the Princess Dowager of Wales. Chambers is said to have been of Scottish descent, he was born in Sweden and was made Knight of the Polar Star by the king of Sweden."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched above image., Artist and printmaker names are unidentified pseudonyms., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Verse etched below image: From North to the South, I came forth right, by favor in duplici modo a Knight, in primis an Ass, secundus a Bear, the one is a Fact, the other is a Fair., and Plate from vol. VI: Characters, macaronies, & caricatures. [London] : Pub. by MDarly, 39 Strand, Novr. 1, 1773.
- Publisher:
- Pub'd by MDarly March 7, 1773, 39 Strand
- Subject (Name):
- Chambers, William, Sir, 1723-1796 and Mason, William, 1725-1797.
- Subject (Topic):
- Dandies, British, Dragons, Elephants, and Pagodas
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Chevalier de l'etoil polaire [graphic]
