print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1935,0522.4.120
- Title
- Object: Love. Or an exquisite at his devotions
- Description
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An effeminate dandy (cf. BM Satires 13069), elongated and with very thin arms and legs, leans back in a chair, one thin arm drooping to the ground, the other curving over his head, his fingers caressing a curl on his forehead. He gazes sideways with a languishing smile at his reflection in the toilet-table glass. He has a thread-like moustache, blue tail-coat with high collar and sleeves, a rose in the button-hole, a white collar and cravat, white waistcoat with a long gold watch-chain round the neck, long light pantaloons, tight from the knee, full at the waist; low pumps with very-pointed toes. On the dressing-table are brush and comb, stoppered bottle, &c, and long tube-like bottle (of Eau de Cologne). Behind (right) on a similar chair a monkey squats admiring its face in a hand-glass. The room is bare, but carpeted to the wall.September 1825
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1825
- Dimensions
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Height: 243 millimetres (cropped)
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Width: 339 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', X, 1952)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1935
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1935,0522.4.120
