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print
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satirical print
Object Type
print
satirical print
Museum number
2010,7081.1435
Title
Object:
Welladay! is this my son Tom!
Description
Satire on fashion. On the left, a country squire come to town starts back in horror at seeing his son dressed as a macaroni with huge wig topped by a small tricorn hat, and carrying a tasselled cane and sword. 25 June 1773 Mezzotint with some etching
Producer name
Print made by:
William Dickinson
(?)
After:
Samuel Hieronymus Grimm
Published by:
Sarah Sledge
School/style
British
Production date
1773
Production place
Published in:
London (England)
Materials
paper
Technique
mezzotint
Dimensions
Height:
353 millimetres
(trimmed?)
Width:
252 millimetres
(trimmed?)
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
No mezzotinter named John Dickinson, active around this date, has been identified. It is possibly by William Dickinson. See also the version published by Carington Bowles at the same date, and a variant published by Sayer & Bennett the following year (BM Sat. 4536; 2010,7081.1434 and 1436). According to Hart, there is a woodcut copy in the Huntingdon Library (http://legacy.lclark.edu/~jhart/home.html).
Bibliographic references
BM Satires / Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum
(4536)
(cf)
Chaloner Smith 1883 / British Mezzotinto portraits from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century
(undescribed)
Russell 1926 / English Mezzotint Portraits and their states: Catalogue of Corrections of and Additions to Chaloner Smith's "British Mezzotinto Portraits"
(undescribed)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
satire
macaroni
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
Hon Christopher Lennox-Boyd
Funder name
With contribution from:
National Heritage Memorial Fund
With contribution from:
Art Fund
With contribution from:
British Museum Friends
With contribution from:
Friends of Prints and Drawings
With contribution from:
Mrs Charles Wrightsman
With contribution from:
Michael Marks Charitable Trust
Acquisition date
2010
Acquisition notes
Acquired with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Friends of the British Museum, the Art Fund, Mrs Charles Wrightsman, the Michael Marks Charitable Trust, and numerous individual donors.
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
2010,7081.1435