print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1946,0301.1.60
- Title
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Object: Monstrosities of 1827.
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Series: Cruikshankiana
- Description
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A crowded promenade just inside Hyde Park Corner, the gateway and pillars forming a background (right). Grotesquely pinched waists and inflated sleeves are worn by both sexes. The women's hands and feet are absurdly small and elegant; they wear hats with huge brims and towering crowns, trimmed with feathers, lace frills, stiffened ribbon bows, and floating streamers, and carry reticules of varying patterns. Skirts are bell-shaped and flounced or have a fur border. Two wear sharp-pointed epaulets, embroidered and projecting horizontally far beyond the shoulders. The skirts of the men's coats are bell-shaped from the small waist. There are three couples in the foreground; advancing from the middle distance is a lady with a little boy wearing military costume, with wide trousers, coat braided to the tight waist, and an absurd helmet topped by a huge round plateau; the child has a sword and grasps his mother's hand. A man wearing a round cap and a cape with a high fur collar smokes a cigar. A dog shaved in the French manner rushes angrily towards an obese but aggressive pug. 1 August 1835; a reissue
Etching
- Production date
- 1835
- Dimensions
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Height: 251 millimetres
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Width: 398 millimetres
- $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)
The print is bound in a collection of repints titled 'Cruikshankiana', published by Thomas McLean in 1835. See 1946,0301.1.1-81.
For the plate by Read, see Ralph Hyde & Valerie Cumming, 'The prints of Benjamin Read', in 'Print Quarterly', XVII 2000, p.270.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1946
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1946,0301.1.60