print;
satirical print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1865,1111.1731-1736
- Description
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Reid 4704. Satirical book of 215 pages in a soft cover entitled: “Modern Belles. Dedicated to all the Beaux. By the Author of the Greeks, the Pigeons, Fashion, Anecdotes & c.”
Below the title: “If to her share some female errors fall, Look in her face and you’ll forget them all.”
With the publication details printed underneath the quotation:
“Sixth Edition. Embellished with Six Humorous Coloured Plates. London; Printed for J.J. Stockdale, No 41, Pall Mall. 1818.” With the following illustrations.
BM Satires 13146. Reid 727. Noble and coachman.
P. 26. The fashionable driver of a four-in-hand, cf. No. 11701, and a hackney coachman stand side by side regarding each other quizzically. Each wears a long, many-caped coat and holds a whip. Their respective coaches stand behind, one with four well-bred horses, the other with a pair of hacks. In the background are the railings of a London square, with an equestrian statue (probably in Berkeley Square).
BM Satires 13148. Reid 728. Beggar & mistress.
P. 28. A blind beggar and a woman sit on the end of a broken-down bed in a ruinous attic; she drinks from a bottle. Before the fire a fish is spiked on a tobacco-pipe which serves as spit; a dog watches it hungrily.
BM Satires 13148. Reid 729. Antient mother. [sic]
P. 80. Scene in a park; a lady in plain old-fashioned dress, seated on an ornamental bench with two children, watches a third child put a coin into the hat of a beggar who stands on the farther side of a railing.
BM Satires 13149. Reid 730. Modern mother.
P. 82. Scene at a rout. A very décolletée lady plays cards, her partner a gouty old man. She turns to display her hand to one of two dandies who lean over her chair.
BM Satires 13150. Reid 731. After dinner.
P. 150. Six people at dinner; a dandy kneels to present the mistress of the house with 'a valuable snuff-box of snowballs', which she had 'made love to'. The term is not explained.
BM Satires 13151. Reid 732. Antiquated beau.
P. 163. An elderly man, wearing gaiters on shrunken legs, hobbles with the help of a stick towards his mistress with an ingratiating gesture; she scowls at him, standing stiffly by a chair.
With 4 pages of advertisements for books printed by J.J. Stockdale bound at the back of the book.
27 December 1817; volume published 1818
Hand-coloured etched illustrations to letterpress book
- Production date
- 1817-1818
- Dimensions
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Height: 105 millimetres (approx. page size)
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Width: 180 millimetres (approx. page size)
- $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', IX, 1949)
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- In fragile condition with loose pages.
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Modern Belles
- Acquisition date
- 1865
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1865,1111.1731-1736