drawing;
print study
- Museum number
- 1854,0513.296
- Description
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"La politesse François, or the English Ladies petition to his Excellency the Mushroom Ambassador", study for a satirical print of the same title; a French petit-maître stands chapeau-bras at left, behind him five young ladies on their knees, making gestures of supplication. c.1784
Graphite
- Production date
- 1784
- Dimensions
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Height: 188 millimetres
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Width: 323 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Study for BMSat 6716 (engraved by Rowlandson and published 4 May 1784).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1854
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1854,0513.296