print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1851,0901.59
- Title
- Object: A meeting of umbrellas.
- Description
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Three men, each holding up an umbrella, meet and seem to find difficulty in passing. An officer, his hair in a long pigtail queue, walks (left to right), his umbrella held in his right hand and resting on his left shoulder. A lean man, holding his umbrella high, and with tasselled cane in his left hand, advances from the right. Between them, his umbrella resting on his right shoulder, a plainly dressed citizen stands full face, holding out his left hand as if to prevent a collision between the other two. A stone wall forms the background. 25 January 1782
Etching
- Production date
- 1782
- Dimensions
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Height: 219 millimetres
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Width: 177 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935)
For the introduction of the umbrella see BMSat 5793.
Grego, 'Gillray', p. 32. Reproduced, Paston, Pl. xxix.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1851
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1851,0901.59
