A grotesquely caricatured, thin and ragged Tom Paine, dressed as a tailor with huge scissors hanging from his pants, kneels before a gigantic crown; he uses a tape measure to determine its dimensions. He wears a French-style hat with a cockade inscribed "vive la liberty". He ruminates on his task,a satire on the first part of his Rights of man.
Alternative Title:
Tommy Paine, the little American taylor, taking the measure of the crown for a new pair of revolution breeches
Description:
At top of design: Humbly dedicated to the Jacobine clubs of France and England by Common Sense. "These are your gods, O, Israel!", Plate shows signs of reworking; 'the' following 'Tommy Paine' in title etched twice, with the repeated word on the second line of title scored through and mostly burnished from plate., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Burke, Edmund,--1729-1797.--Reflections on the Revolution in France., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher., Paine, Thomas,--1737-1809.--Rights of man., and Paine, Thomas,--1737-1809--Caricatures and cartoons.
A satire on the new fashion of Jean Debry coats: A tailor holds a mirror to a customer who looks at his image with horror. The customer complains that he has put a hump upon each shoulder. The tailor replies that the coat has been made to his wife's specifications.
Alternative Title:
Matrimonial comforts ; sketch 6
Description:
Earlier state described by Joseph Grego in Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 15., Earlier state, with imprint. Cf. No. 9625 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Series title and number etched above print., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher., Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress--England--1790-1800., Mirrors., and Tailors.
"In a bare room with a raftered roof couples are energetically dancing, holding hands behind their backs, or above their heads. The women, with one exception, are young and handsome, the men ugly and plebeian. A seated fiddler plays with closed eyes (right). Through a doorway partly covered with curtains the bride and bridegroom are seen embracing. On the wall is a placard: 'They dance in a round, cutting capers and ramping. A mercy the ground did not burst with their stamping.The floor is all wett, with leaps and with jumps, while the water and sweat, splish splash in their pumps'."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Plate numbered "315" in upper right corner. and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher.
Subject (Topic):
Couples. , Dance., Musicians. , Tailors. , and Weddings.
Heideloff, Nicolaus Innocentius Wilhelm Clemens von, 1761-1837, printmaker.
Call Number:
Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 8
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
"Domestic scene based on Beresford's 'Miseries of Human Life': three tailors (or his apprentices) at work disturbed by woman carrying a tray of cucumbers on her head.
Description:
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Title etched below image., and Two lines of text below title: While deep in study and lost in thought in the complicated profession of a taylor and all on a sudden disturbed by the shrieks of a woman crying cucumbers.
"A paunchy carbuncled fellow, wearing old-fashioned court-dress, with ribbon, star, sword, and bag-wig, peacocks with hands on hips before an amused group in a narrow 'Whitechaple' street. They are outside the new peer's shop, from which projects a pole supporting a sign: 'Breeches cleaned lined and Repaired' and an old pair of breeches. A fat woman, probably his wife, wearing a feathered cap, stands on a step-ladder scrubbing the board above the shop-front: 'Stichall Breeches [Maker] to his Serene Highness the . . .' On the shop is a bill 'To be Sold the good Will of the Shop - Removed to Grovesner Place'. The upstart looks over his shoulder with sour defiance at the neighbours who crowd round him, highly amused, a butcher in the forefront. An aged tailor holding shears gapes in amazement."--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Breeches maker become a lord
Description:
Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership. and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Subject (Topic):
Butchers., Couples. , Dogs., Snobbishness., Social classes. , Social mobility., and Tailors.
An obese man in elegant dress struts down Fleet Street as his fellow tailors roar with laughter at his pompous attire. In the background, a woman (his wie?) put signs on the sides of the shops advertising breeches and other haberdashery. A dog barks as he looks up at the elegantly dressed pretender.
Alternative Title:
Tailor turned lord and Taylor turned lord
Description:
A detail from a 1805 print by Rowlandson: Recovery of a dormant title, or, A breeches maker become a lord., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership. and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Subject (Topic):
Butchers., Couples. , Dogs., Snobbishness., Social classes. , Social mobility., and Tailors.
