print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1935,0522.1.204
- Title
- Object: Quarrelsome Taylors, or Two of a Trade seldom agree
- Description
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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
- Production date
- 1793-1795
- Dimensions
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Height: 348 millimetres
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Width: 250 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- 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.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1935
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1935,0522.1.204
