print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1935,0522.10.231
- Title
- Object: Lamb and mint sauce.
- Description
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A very stout elderly man in old-fashioned dress holds on his knee a slim and elegant courtesan, who holds out her dress to receive the guineas which he pours into her lap. Beside them (right) is a table laid with knife, fork, and (?) lamb chop (cut off by the margin).
March 1811
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1811
- Dimensions
-
Height: 331 millimetres (cropped)
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Width: 238 millimetres (cropped)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Description from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', IX, 1949)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1935
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1935,0522.10.231