print; satirical print

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Object Type: print; satirical print
Museum number: 1935,0522.4.143
Title: Object: Making-Decent; i.e.-Broad-bottomites getting into the Grand Costume.
Description: A (coloured) copy, by Williams, with the same inscriptions, imprint: 'Pubd Feby 1806 by S W Fores No 50 Piccadilly'. February 1806 Hand-coloured etching.
Producer name: Print made by: James Gillray; Published by: S W Fores
School/style: British
Production date: 1806
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials: paper
Technique: etching; hand-coloured
Dimensions: Height: 241 millimetres (cropped); Width: 341 millimetres (cropped)
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: This imprint is a copy of BMSat No.10531.
Bibliographic references: BM Satires / Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (10531.A)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: satire
Associated names: Associated with: Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth; Associated with: John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford; Associated with: Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine; Associated with: Charles James Fox; Associated with: George VI, King of the United Kingdom; Associated with: William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville; Associated with: Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey; Associated with: Francis Rawdon Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings and 2nd Earl of Moira; Associated with: Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne; Associated with: Richard Brinsley Sheridan; Associated with: George John Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer; Associated with: George Tierney; Associated with: Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley; Associated with: William Windham
Acquisition name: Transferred from: British Library
Acquisition date: 1935
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1935,0522.4.143
Conservation: Treatment: 26 Nov 2009

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