print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.6524
- Title
- Object: Madamoiselle Parisot
- Description
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Mme Parisot stands on the left toe, full-face, her arms extended and raised slightly above the shoulders, her right leg extended, the toe a little higher than the waist; she points directly at a stage-box (left), looking alluringly to the right. In the box sits the Duke of Queensberry, peering through a quizzing-glass under the raised skirt of the dancer. Behind him stands a fat bishop, looking at her through an opera-glass. The men, but not the dancer, are caricatured. 1796
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1796
- Dimensions
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Height: 304 millimetres
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Width: 354 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', VII, 1942)
See BMSat 8894. The bishop is perhaps Barrington, Bishop of Durham, who led the outcry against the scanty dress of opera dancers in 1798, see BMSat 9297, &c.
Reproduced, Fuchs, 'Die Frau in der Karikatur', 1906, after p. 448.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.6524
