print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1862,1217.281
- Title
- Object: The four Mr Prices.-
- Description
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After the title: Four Gentlemen of the Name of Price, all of very different dimensions, are thus distinguished by their friends— The Tall one, is called—High Price—the short one Low Price, the Fat one Full Price & the Thin one Half Price—Examiner. Four men, much burlesqued, walk arm-in-arm, advancing (right to left) towards the spectator. Below each is his name: High Price [&c.]. They are (left to right): an enormously tall dandy with a tiny 'Petersham' hat; a very short man in top-boots and breeches; an enormously fat man in loose trousers, and an impossibly thin one wearing breeches and wrinkled gaiters. 5 January 1825.
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1825
- Dimensions
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Height: 245 millimetres
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Width: 353 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', X, 1952)
Stephen Price, an American, Manager of Drury Lane, perhaps caricatured here, was generally known as 'Half Price. D.N.B., s.v. Kean. Cf. Nos. 14902, 14903.
The pen drawing, signed, caption, 'A family of the Name of Price', is in the V. & A. (CC. 18 A).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1862
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1862,1217.281
