print; satirical print

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Object Type: print; satirical print
Museum number: 1935,0522.1.63
Title: Object: Summer
Description: Satire on society in the summer heat: a couple walking near White Conduit House, Islington; the man has taken off his wig and hat to mop his head, the wife scolds a servant boy who is carrying her shawl, dog and pattens (one of which he has dropped) and the husband's walking stick; a small girl on the right offers to sell cherries from a basket. Behind three girls look from an upstairs window of their school where "Young Ladies [are] Compleatly Instructed"; one has a telescope which she trains at four naked boys bathing in a pond; beyond a man works on a haystack. Hand-coloured mezzotint
Producer name: After: John Collet; Published by: Carington Bowles
School/style
Production date: 1778-1779
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique: mezzotint; hand-coloured
Dimensions: Height: 355 millimetres; Width: 250 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: From a set of the four seasons (see BMSat.4564 to 4567). The composition and subject is based on Hogarth's "Evening". See also the reduced version: 2010,7081.2133
Bibliographic references: BM Satires / Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (4565); 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; seasons; school/university/college building; child (street seller and servant boy); street-trader; swimming/bathing
Associated places: Topographic representation of: Islington
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1935
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1935,0522.1.63
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