print;
satirical print;
music sheet/cover
- Museum number
- 1861,0518.1012
- Title
- Object: Frank Hayman; a tale;
- Description
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Heading to verses printed in three columns: 'Written by John Taylor, Esquire, Author of Monsieur Tonson, and originally intended for recitation at the Haymarket Theatre, during the Lent season.' A street scene showing a door inscribed 'Hayman', the lower part of three sash-windows, area railings, and pavement. A porter offers a mangled hare to a maidservant who holds up her hands in horror; the porter drops a paper inscribed 'Hayman Esq'. Hayman himself, a well-dressed man, stands behind the porter (right), on the pavement. The verses describe, first, Hayman's paintings at Vauxhall, then his following with much amusement a drunken porter with a hare, followed by an alert dog, which during the porter's drunken doze had eaten part of the hare. He pleasurably anticipated the delivery of the hare, but, arriving at his own house, found that he was the victim of his own sense of humour. The subject of pl. No. 34 to 'The Humourist', by G. Cruikshank, 1819. Reid, No. 823. 20 February 1798
Etching with letterpress text
- Production date
- 1798
- Dimensions
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Height: 204 millimetres
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Width: 251 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1987 Apr-May, USA, Yale Center for British Art, 'Francis Hayman'
1987 Jun-Sep, Kenwood, Iveagh Bequest, 'Francis Hayman'
- Acquisition date
- 1861
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1861,0518.1012