print; satirical print

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Object Type: print; satirical print
Museum number: 1935,0522.1.204
Title: Object: Quarrelsome Taylors, or Two of a Trade seldom agree
Description: A ragged 'botching tailor' is climbing out of his bulk or stall (right) to attack with his goose a tailor who hastens from him, turning to snip his shears contemptuously. Above the penthouse stall is a placard, 'Simon Snip - maks & mendes Mens & Buoys reddy mad Close. N.B. nete Gallows for Breaches.' A garment and a pair of braces (see BMSat 8039) hang on a line; within a window is a sheet of patterns. The other, who is neatly dressed, carries a coat under his arm; a book of patterns protrudes from his coat pocket. A street receding in perspective (right) and the façade of a dignified house (left) form a background. 'Caricatures', i. 204. c.1794 Hand-coloured mezzotint
Producer name: After: Robert Dighton; Published by: Bowles & Carver
School/style
Production date: 1793-1795
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique: mezzotint; hand-coloured
Dimensions: Height: 348 millimetres; Width: 250 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Not a re-issue of a Carington Bowles plate, but a new Bowles & Carver plate. Dighton's original watercolour for this print from the collection of Mr Jeffrey Rose was sold at Sotheby's, 23 February 1978, lot 59.
Bibliographic references: BM Satires / Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (8595); Chaloner Smith 1883 / British Mezzotinto portraits from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century (undescribed)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: satire; tailor
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1935
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1935,0522.1.204

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