print; satirical print

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Object Type: print; satirical print
Museum number: 1868,0808.8411
Title: Object: Quid est?- Why Brighton dandies.!!!
Description: 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
Producer name: Print made by: Charles Williams; Published by: S W Fores
School/style
Production date: 1819
Materials
Technique: etching; hand-coloured
Dimensions: Height: 247 millimetres; Width: 349 millimetres
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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.
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Subjects: satire; dandy/rake
Associated names: Associated with: Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex; Associated with: Harriot Beauclerk, Duchess of St Albans; Associated with: Augustus Frederick d'Este
Associated places: Associated with: Brighton
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1868
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1868,0808.8411

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