print;
satirical print;
puzzle-picture
- Museum number
- 1995,0930.42
- Title
- Object: The toy woman
- Description
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Henry Fox, depicted as an old woman with a fox's head selling toy windmills and turnabouts (winged figures on sticks) for children, combined with a lengthy satirical rebus below listing state appointments after the appointment of Fox as paymaster general. 2 July 1757
Etching
- Production date
- 1757
- Dimensions
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Height: 311 millimetres
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Width: 199 millimetres (cut)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- A copy is in P&D (BMSat 3635; 1847,1009.18)) in a collected volume of reductions from separately issued plates published under the title "A Political and Satyrical History..." (for full details of which see BMSat 3342). The BM has (1994) 112 small prints from the several issues of this collection, but only a few dozen of the larger scale prints from which they were taken. Only a tiny number are from before 1760.
The print should be compared with an etching of a toy woman attributed to de Loutherbourg (1917,1208.1081)
Rosemary Baker notes (personal communication, 1996) that it is extremely unusual to find a rebus combined with a full-scale pictorial satire as an integral part of a total design.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1995
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1995,0930.42