print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1867,0713.409
- Title
- Object: Pupils of nature.
- Description
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A tall handsome young woman walks, left to right, looking to the left with a coquettish smile. An ugly man (left), small and deformed, one leg heightened by an iron, looks up at her, saying, "Queer my Sconce but thats a D------d fine Woman, now if she has got any Shiners, I've a great mind to Noose, and tip her the go by when I'm tired of her." Both are fashionably dressed and wear spencers (see BMSat 8192). The lady wears a long fur boa, with a large muff. A pavement of large flagstones completes the design. 30 April 1798
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1798
- Dimensions
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Height: 278 millimetres
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Width: 263 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The attribution to Williams was made by Andrew Norton (correspondence, March 2008), "... attributions to Sansom made by Dorothy George are suspect and may have been based on Hawkin's annotations - "Pupils of nature." BM9310 is signed TS and has all of the features of early works by Charles Williams (the TS may be for Timothy Squib, a name he used on a puzzle print of this period)."
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1867
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1867,0713.409