print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1927,0803.3
- Title
- Object: Real Inhabitants of this Earth
- Description
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An elderly man, his profile caricatured, dressed as a military officer, inspects through a glass a fat man and boy (left), both Dutch, wearing baggy breeches and sabots, who lean against a rail, the man smoking a pipe. A pretty young woman, wearing a high-waisted travelling dress and small hat, takes the officer's arm; her left hand is in a large muff. Behind are the masts of a vessel backed by chalk cliffs, showing that the rail edges a small creek or harbour; on the right are a beam and pulley.
1 January 1809
Stipple with hand-colouring
- Production date
- 1809
- Dimensions
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Height: 338 millimetres
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Width: 241 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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This belongs to a set of six plates by Shepheard after Bunbury that were first published by Thomas Macklin on 10 January 1796.George did not know the first edition, but did record a later reprint by Fores on 1 January 1819. She listed only this print of the set since she regarded this as the only one that was caricatural; for others of the set in the BM see 1935,0522.10.120, 121, 122 and 123, and 1927,0803.1 and 2.
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(Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VIII, 1947)
One of a set of six, four of which are in the Print Room, the others being purely genre subjects.
The six plates were reissued by Fores, 1 Jan. 1819, the original imprints being scored through (A. de R., 'Bunbury', 20-5).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1927
- Acquisition notes
- Given by W Beaton, Esq
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1927,0803.3