print;
satirical print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1855,1208.65
- Title
- Object: [Margery Inkle dressing her hair]
- Description
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Margery in stays and petticoat seated before her dressing-table holds the monstrous erection on her head. Her father, Inkle, seated on a chair (right), watches in astonishment. A maid stands by an open door (left) holding the cock which has been robbed of its tail-feathers, some of which lie on the ground, others adorn Margery's head-dress. A cat miaows at the cock. See also BMSat 5385.
Illustration in Anstey's 'The Election Ball', Bath 1777, p.27. 30 December 1776
Etching
- Production date
- 1776
- Dimensions
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Height: 115 millimetres
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Width: 110 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- George assumes that the illustrations to 'The Election Ball' signed "W.H." were etched by the amateur William Hassel, but the DNB entry on Bampfylde gives them to the Bath engraver William Hibbart, who also published an aquatint of Oakhampton Castle by Bampfylde. For the other illustrations see BM Satires 5387-5390, for the frontispiece see BM Satires 5385.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1855
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1855,1208.65
