print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1948,0214.932
- Title
- Object: The four greens!!!
- Description
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Four men, all smiling, all in coats of a different shade of green, all with a caption in large letters. [1] Pea-Green. A slim sharp-featured dandy, much whiskered and moustached, wearing a top-hat, and holding a cane, looks through a rectangular monocle. [2] Sap-Green. An oafish, lank-haired, bandy-legged fellow, stands with a round hat in both hands, grinning broadly. [3] Bottle-Green. An unusually fat man, carbuncled and gouty, staggers tipsily, holding a bottle and putting a glass to his mouth. From his pocket hangs a paper: Charles Wright's Champagne Opera Collo[nade]. [4] Ever-Green. An aged dandy, decrepit but jaunty, walks along, riding-switch in hand. He wears riding-breeches and gaiters on shrunken legs. 16 January 1827
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1827
- Dimensions
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Height: 242 millimetres
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Width: 347 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', X, 1952)
[1] Pea-Green: ?'Pea-Green' Haynes, see BM Satires 14711, &c.
[3] Bottle-Green: ?A portrait of C. W., the wine-merchant, a well-known character, whose lavish advertisements in 'Bell's Life' were illustrated by humorous woodcuts (e.g., 17 June 1827: 'Champagne, Five and Sixpence, the cheapest in town.') He was noted for giving masquerades as a speculation, at which champagne flowed, cf. No. 15182. He was the son of a butcher and became insane in 1830. 'Bell's Life', 9 Dec. 1832.)
[4] Ever-Green: He resembles Skeffington (1771-1850), see vols, vii-ix and No. 14540.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1948
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1948,0214.932
