print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.12381
- Title
- Object: Bounc Drape
- Description
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Satire on an unidentified man: a formal room in Covent Garden with an angry man holding a paper lettered "... & Certefocate" and saying 'Dar be my Naturalisation! And here is Vat few of you can Showe ma Commission of de Peace'. He lays another paper lettered "Nateral-izing" on a table around which sits a group of men under a portrait of "The Good Earl Bedford" wearing mid 17th-century dress; one of these men, better dressed than the others and possibly intended as a member of parliament says "I wich I had such Voters". In the background, through an open door, can be seen the sundial pillar from the Covent Garden market-place; an owl flies past it holding a ribbon with illegible lettering.
Etching
- Production date
- 1753 (?)
- Dimensions
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Height: 270 millimetres (image)
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Height: 311 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 175 millimetres (image)
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Width: 190 millimetres (trimmed)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The meaning of the print is not clear; it may be connected with the Jewish naturalisation Act of 1753
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: Act for the Naturalization of Jews (?) 1753
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.12381
