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- Creator:
- Marryat, Frederick, 1792-1848, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1819?]
- Call Number:
- Drawings M362 no. 1 Box D135
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Watercolor drawing of a caricatured tailor standing in profile to the left revealing an enormous paunch. He stands before a railing on a boardwalk with the ocean waves below. He desperately clutches a small girl in his left arm, a cane between his legs, and fumbles with an umbrella as a forcible gale blows away the remainder of his possessions including a pattern book, wig, hat, the child's bonnet, and tape measure. A dog crouches on his side in the lower left
- Alternative Title:
- Embarras des richesses
- Description:
- Title from ms. caption inscribed below drawing., Artist from British Museum catalogue., and Original drawing for a print by the same name etched by G. Cruikshank and published by G. Humphrey. Cf. no. 13435 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Brighton (England),
- Subject (Topic):
- Dogs, Girls, Sewing equipment & supplies, Tailors, Wigs, and Winds
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A tailor in a high wind, or, L'embarras des richesses drawn from life on the cliff Brighton. [art original]
