Inconvenience of wigs and Inconvenient des perruques
Description:
Title from item., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Where prints and drawings are lent on the plan of a library., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Female dress: riding habit.
Publisher:
Pub. April 7th, 1798, by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly, corner of Sachville [sic] St.
Image above 6 stanzas of explanatory poetry engraved in double columns. A balding lady on horseback in Hyde Park's Rotten Row loses her tête or head-dress to a gust of wind, as her horse bolts toward the right. Two other horsemen as well as a gardener and other passers-by debate the identity of the fallen wig which is decorated with ostrich plumes in the fashion of the period
Alternative Title:
Fate of the tête
Description:
Title from item., Trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 27 x 21 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs, 16th April 1777, by J. Lockington, Shug Lane, Piccadilly
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 9th Jany, 1782.
Call Number:
782.01.09.01 Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Henry Bunbury. See Bloomsbury catalogue., Place of publication based on printmaker's location., Sheet trimmed withint plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 9th Jany, 1782.
Call Number:
782.03.01.02.2+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Henry Bunbury. See Bloomsbury catalogue., Place of publication based on printmaker's location., Sheet trimmed withint plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Collector's stamp: letter 'E' in lower left corner, on verso., and Watermark: countermark I V.
George III on horseback charges into the scene from the left, his enemies fleeing before him and his pack of dogs each named after a British admiral. Spain in slashed doublet is farthest right, attacked by a dog whose collar is inscribed Elliot, while France in a polka dot suit, bag wig and crown leaps over a fence with a dog (Rodney?) at his heels. A Dutchman has fallen onto his back and three other dogs (labelled Pigot, How[e], and Park[er] are about to overtake him
Alternative Title:
Royal sportsman running down the enemies of Great Britain and Lewis Baboon taking a flying leap
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue, no. 6043., Sheet trimmed., Possibly a later state of no. 6043 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and Mounted to 24 x 36 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by W. Richardson Decr. 9, 1782 near Surry St. Strand
