print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.6150
- Title
- Object: Fashionable contrasts; -or- the duchess's little shoe yielding to the magnitude of the duke's foot
- Description
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A pair of masculine legs from below the calf, the feet in large buckled shoes, between the tiny ankles and feet of the Duchess of York wearing jewelled slippers, placed horizontally. See BMSat 7930, &c. 24 January 1792 (republished by McLean in 1830)
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1792
- Dimensions
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Height: 255 millimetres
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Width: 355 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', VI, 1938)
On the back is an impression of BMSat 8113. There is perhaps some significance in this, as impressions of these prints in the Royal Collection at Windsor are also printed back to back [this shows that this impression comes from McLeans's compilation of Gillray prints published in 1830, see 1868,0808.10397-11004).
Reprinted, 'G.W.G.', 1830.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2009 Jan-Mar, BM, Room 90, Love and Marriage
2018 -2019, 6 Sep - 20 Jan, London, BM, G35, I Object
2019 11 May-20 Jul, Pontefract Museum, Wakefield, The golden age of satire? Late-Georgian satirical prints
2019 27 Jul-6 Oct, Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire, The golden age of satire? Late-Georgian satirical prints
2019-2020 12 Oct-12 Jan, Beacon Museum, Whitehaven, The golden age of satire? Late-Georgian satirical prints
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.6150
