print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.8411
- Title
- Object: Quid est?- Why Brighton dandies.!!!
- Description
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Captain Augustus d'Este drives a high-stepping horse in a four-wheeled phaeton towards the Brighton cliffs (right). He wears lancer's uniform, with a high plumed helmet, with streaming tassels, short tunic, trousers, and sword. At his side sits Mrs. Coutts, very plump, wearing a large bonnet and holding up a parasol. She turns to him saying, "This is driving with Spirit indeed, to what I have been used to lately!!!" (a reflection on her elderly husband). He says: "You do me honor I am sure, but there is no Man of Sussex feels more pleasure than I do in driving the Ladies.!" Between his legs is a large band-box of 'full trim'd petticoats' on which stands a large melon, to show the lady's identity. Behind (left) is the end of a row of houses, the 'Steine'. On the shore below the cliffs are bathing machines.
January 1819
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1819
- Dimensions
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Height: 247 millimetres
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Width: 349 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', IX, 1949)
For the marriage of Harriot Mellon (1777?-1837) to Coutts, see No. 11940. D'Este (1794-1848) was the son of the Duke of Sussex and Lady Augusta Murray.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.8411
