print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1927,0308.108
- Title
- Object: Measure for measure.
- Description
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A jovial elderly man in old-fashioned dress, grasps the hand of a younger man, more fashionably dressed, with a cockaded opera-hat under his arm, but with a plebeian profile. Above their heads is an ornate gas chandelier. Behind, a (?) ball-supper at a long table is in progress; liveried footmen wait; one staggers, hurling glasses of wine from his salver. The words of the foreground figures are below the title: How d'you do Sir? I've certainly had the pleasure of being in your Company before—but— a—I really forget your Name. The other: If you please Sir,—I' made y'r Breeches! I' made y'r Breeches! Answer: Major Bridges! I'm sure, Very happy to see ye Major! Very happy indeed. 1827
Hand-coloured etching and aquatint
- Production date
- 1827
- Dimensions
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Height: 240 millimetres
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Width: 209 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', X, 1952)
This dialogue is illustrated in No. 10351, A Meeting at Margate, or a little Mistake.
Publication line as No. 15483.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1827
- Acquisition notes
- 1927,0308.1 to 158 all came from the bequest of H S Ashbee, who died in 1900. They only reached P&D in 1927 from the Library.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1927,0308.108