An awkward couple, caricatured and drawn full-length, are shown dancing. An older woman whose decorative plumage extends beyond the man's head, has a crooked nose and lanky features. The man, somewhat younger, has a protruding chin
Description:
Title from caption in brown ink, below image., Questionable attribution to William Heath., Mounted on the verso of an estate map., and William Heath, English caricaturist and illustrator, 1795-1840.
A folio album of 144 caricatures mounted on 87 sheets, mostly etchings, with some aquatints and other satirical prints, some hand-colored, and one pen-and-ink drawing laid in.
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Laid in, a wood engraving: Principal characters, in the new play of the road to royalty! [London] : Printed and published by T. Rockliffe, 65 Ratcliff Highway, [1829]., Laid in, an etching: Rats in the barn, or, Iohn Bull's famous old dog Billy astonishing the varment / [figure of Paul Pry] Esqr. [London] : Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket, [1829]., Laid in, an etching: Funeral of the constitution. [London] : Pubd. March 1809 by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket, [1809]., Laid in, a lithograph: View of the Houses of Lords and Commons : destroyed by fire on the 16th Octr. 1834. [London] : Pub. by W. Soffe, 380 Strand, [ca. 1834]., Laid in, a pen and ink drawing on watermark paper G. Pike, 1817: The savior of this grateful country : to Kingston 1 mile to London x miles. [England], [ca. 1817]., Note on front pastedown: This book contains the caricatures published by Sayers during his life. This was his own copy and was presented to me after his death. [Signed] Eldon., With Lord Eldon's bookplate., and For further information, consult library staff.
Title assigned by cataloger., Other prints in the series were designed and etched by either Tim Bobbin or Thomas Sandars., Plate from: Human passions delineated in above 120 figures ... design'd in the Hogarthian style ... by Timo[thy] Bobbin. [Manchester] : John Heywood, 1773., Plate numbered '24' in upper right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Toupée wigs -- Club wigs -- Nosegays -- Female dress, 1773.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Wigs, Corsages, and Flowers
