print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1935,0522.4.128
- Title
- Object: Modern tourists
- Description
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Three separate scenes blend into a single design. The dialogue is etched in the lower margin. On the left a young girl sits on the knee of her father, a stout drink-blotched man wearing a plain old-fashioned wig, breeches, and top-boots. She takes his chin, saying insinuatingly: Lord, Papa! you must let us go to the Continent ; Mrs Thingamary says we shall never be accomplished till we have seen the Paris manners and customs. A round mirror is topped by a coronet. In the centre two dandies stand on a London pavement, against a background of tall houses. One, dressed in French fashion, with a moustache, a small hat perched on curls, and trousers pinched at the knee, stands with folded arms and a theatrical scowl. The other, wearing strapped trousers, tail-coat, and bell-shaped top-hat, smokes a cigar and holds a riding-whip; he asks: Well, Charles, where are you off to? Answer: O! moy dear feller, to Paris—to Paris, moy dear feller; nothing like Paris —there you have the—the—the—Je ne sçais quoi, moy dear feller, the—the every thing the every-thing!!— On the right two ladies sit facing each other across a small round table. One wears a huge hat with broad flat brim trimmed with ribbon loops and streamers, the other a hat with wide brim bent bonnet-wise; both have big gigot sleeves, and full skirts. Below: Lord, ma'am! you are not serious,—you can never think of going to Margate—it is so common every tailor, shoemaker, and linendraper goes to Margate—No, no ma'am; Paris is the great resort of pure gentility, I assure you.—I always goes to Paris. Sept 25 1827.
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1827
- Dimensions
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Height: 244 millimetres (cropped)
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Width: 350 millimetres (cropped)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', X, 1952)
Cf. No. 15465; for Margate as the cits' watering-place, No. 10351, &c.
This plate was reissued in McLean's 'Cruikshankiana', 1835.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1935
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1935,0522.4.128