print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1935,0522.10.20
- Title
- Object: Miss Tomboy on her favourite donkey.
- Description
-
A fashionably dressed young woman bestrides a donkey (left) on a fringed saddle-cloth. The animal stops to eat a huge thistle-plant. She turns to a footman in livery on a high-stepping horse (right) to say: "Whip my Ass John! why dont you whip my Ass? You only tickle it, Whip it well!!" See No. 10510.
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1810 (?)
- Dimensions
-
Height: 237 millimetres (cropped)
-
Width: 335 millimetres (cropped)
- $Inscriptions
-
- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VIII, 1947)
Plate of uncertain date.
A copy, 'Pub. by McCleary. 32. Nassau Street', in J.L.D.
(Supplementary information)
Dated by M. D. George, ? c.1810.
See also 1991,0720.59, a plate published by Holland and presumed to be a copy after this original.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1935
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1935,0522.10.20
