print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.6566
- Description
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A sheet of French copies of English caricatures on one plate. The first is BMSat 8837 b. The second, evidently after Newton, is
DECOUVERTE MALHEUREUSE.
A shrewish woman (left) seizes the queue of a kneeling and terrified man, brandishing a poker. A buxom servant-girl, her breasts uncovered, stands (right) in profile to the left with downcast eyes.
Two companion prints are after Rowlandson:
UN PEUT [sic] PLUS SERRÉ.
A lean stay-maker (right) tugs with both hands at the stay-lace of a fat woman who stands in back view, arms extended, frowning over her shoulder at the man, who flings himself backwards in his effort, pressing one knee against her person. See below.
See Grego, 'Rowlandson', i. 293 (reproduction). Original, 'A Little Tighter', pub. Fores, 18 May 1791.
UN PEUT PLUS LARGE.
See above. An enormously fat man with a face disfigured by drink stands in profile to the left, while a tailor stoops beside him, trying to encircle his waist with his tape.
See Grego, 'Rowlandson', i. 293. Original, 'A Little Bigger', pub. Fores, 18 May 1791. There is a lithographic copy, reversed [1818], by G. Cruikshank, Reid, No. 2782. ('Caricatures', x. 126.) Datable 1796 or shortly after
Etching
- Production date
- 1796
- Dimensions
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Height: 258 millimetres
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Width: 264 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- BMSat 8916 decribes this sheet as a whole
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.6566
