print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1948,0214.936
- Title
- Object: Smiles and tears
- Description
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Above the design: Buncombe's Miniature Caricature Magazine. N° 2. Contrasted designs, side by side, the title divided between them. [1] A corner of the stage, a stage-box in the foreground on the extreme left in which Col. Berkeley stands to clap Maria Foote who dances a pas seul, wearing a becoming evening dress and looking towards the box. At the base of the design are the head and shoulders of two musicians, elderly, ugly, and comic, who face each other, playing their instruments; a flautist (right) says: The Colonel has injured his knee—; a trumpeter: Yes but he has not hurt his Foote. [2] Hayne, with long ass's ears, sits despairingly beside a table covered with Bills of Costs, shedding tears. In his pocket is a paper: Galloping Consumption; on the floor, Damages 3000!! and a book, Boxiana [by P. Egan]. On the wall are pictures: a boxing match and a rider thrown from his horse. Money-bags are under the table. He reflects (in a parody of 'The Lass of Richmond Hill'): Were mine the land [In all the Strand, | Colonel, I beg your pardon; | I'd Crowns resign | To call but mine, | One Foote of Covent Garden. 1 January 1825
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1825
- Dimensions
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Height: 131 millimetres
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Width: 167 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', X, 1952)
See No. 14711, &c.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1948
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1948,0214.936
