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The new man after God's own heart.

• Object type

  • satirical print
  • print

• Museum number

  1851,0901.531

• Title (object)

  • The new man after God's own heart.

• Description

  Whole length portrait in profile to the right of a man gravely inspecting the door of the Mount Coffee house through an eyeglass. Under his right arm is an umbrella; he holds his left glove in his (gloved) right hand. There is nothing extravagant about his dress, though he wears the fashionable half-boots, showing striped stockings. Behind him is a post inscribed 'Tol de rol de rol'. Beneath the design is etched:

  'And it came to pass when he came down from the Mount, behold the skin of his face shone. - Exod: 22d - ' 28 June 1791
  Hand-coloured etching

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• Producer name

  • Published by: S W Fores

• School/style

  • British

• Date

  • 1791

• Materials

  • paper

• Technique

  • hand-coloured
  • etching

• Dimensions

  • Height: 208 millimetres
  • Width: 159 millimetres

• Inscriptions

  • • Inscription Content

      Lettered: 'Pub, June 28, 1791. by S W Fores N 3 Piccadilly'

• Curator's comments

  (Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938)
  Identified by E. Hawkins as Sir Thomas Stepney. 'Tom Stepney' was one of the Carlton House set. He succeeded his brother John in 1811 as 9th Bart., and died in 1825. The Mount was a fashionable coffee-house in Lower Grosvenor Street. Similar in manner to BMSat 7963.

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• Bibliography

  • BM Satires 7977

• Location

  Not on display (Satires British 1791 Unmounted Roy)

• Subjects

  • satire

• Associated names

  • Representation of: Sir Thomas Stepney, 9th Baronet

• Acquisition name

  • Donated by: William Smith, the printseller

• Acquisition date

  1851

• Department

  Prints & Drawings

• Registration number

  1851,0901.531