print; satirical print

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Object Type: print; satirical print
Museum number: 1860,0623.22
Title: Object: The Unwelcome Customer
Description: Satire on London life. The interior of a milliner's shop into which a bull has charged causing consternation. Two drovers and their dogs have followed the bull through the door and one man belabours him with a stick. Two middle-aged women customers react with alarm, one falling off her chair, the other seizing her lapdog by the tail; a muff has fallen and the bull's horn impales it; a box with cards of lace falls to the floor; a young man (their servant?) wearing a hat with large feather seizes the sword of an effeminate man who shrinks back holding a strip of lace to his face while a small girl hides behind him. A lawyer has climbed on the counter and helps up a portly colleague who has dropped his brief on the floor. Behind the counter are three shop assistants: one faints and is supported by another who looks anxiously at the bull; a third who has climbed up to take down a box from a shelf behind the counter looks back in shock. Ribbons hang in the bow window and boxes stacked on the shelves incude one labelled "Gloves" and another labelled "Ribbons"; a hat box hangs on the wall to right. 17 August 1772 Etching and engraving
Producer name: Print made by: James Caldwall; After: John Collet; Published by: Robert Sayer; Published by: John Smith of Cheapside
School/style
Production date: 1772
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique: etching; engraving
Dimensions: Height: 160 millimetres; Width: 363 millimetres
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Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Subjects: satire; shop; costume/clothing; cattle; lawyer; dog; tailor/milliner
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1860
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1860,0623.22

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