print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.6870
- Title
- Object: Old hat or a serious divertisment as performd at the Chappel Royal!!!
- Description
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The interior, indicated only, of the Chapel Royal. Two constables with crowned staves stand in the foreground (left); one, who resembles Townsend, the Bow Street officer, shows the other a tattered hat saying, "Dishd by Jupiter not worth twopence"; the other answers: "a very Bad Commodity indeed". A smartly dressed man (right), his finger to his nose, walks off to the right with a large hat, saying, "a Fair Hoax [cf. BMSat 9416] - however - I'm off." In a recess or pew is the King watching the constables through a spy-glass and saying: "Hae - Hae what? What Stole his Hat - Good Joke that - Bran new I suppose - Left Old Hat in Exchange - no bad thing that - Like Old Hat he he he!!!" Next him on the left is (?) Lord Salisbury grinning, and on the right the Queen. There are other figures and in the background (left) a parson in a high desk and two choir-boys singing. 5 March 1800
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1800
- Dimensions
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Height: 249 millimetres
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Width: 355 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.6870