print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1882,0211.280
- Title
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Object: The return from Margate
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Series: Twelve elegant and humorous prints of rural scenes, adorned with comic figures, by Robert Dighton
- Description
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A scene in the small courtyard of a London inn, at which a stage-coach has just arrived. A stout lady is getting out of the coach, larger in scale than the other figures; the coachman is taking game, &c, from the box. A short stout 'cit' yawns and stretches. Another man looks sourly at his watch; packages lie on the ground, including a hamper directed to 'Alderman Guttle'. A smiling waiter (right) invites the company to enter the inn. Through the folding gates of the yard is seen a street with a distant church. c.1784
Etching
- Production date
- 1780-1790
- Dimensions
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Height: 168 millimetres
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Width: 266 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', VI, 1938)
For Margate as the cits' watering-place, cf. BMSat 5049, 7096, 7744, 7755.
(Supplementary information)
From a set of twelve plates bound together (see BMSat 6747 to 6758). For comment see the first plate.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1882
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1882,0211.280