print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- J,1.148
- Title
- Object: The petticoat, at the fieri maschareta
- Description
-
A voluminous petticoat worn over the head as a hood and reaching to the feet of its wearer, whose face, in profile to the left., appears through an aperture. One large gloved hand appears through a slit in the garment. A ducal coronet is on the wearer's head, low-heeled shoes suggest that the wearer is a man. 25 April 1775
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1775
- Dimensions
-
Height: 175 millimetres
-
Width: 123 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935)
A companion-print to BMSat 5314.
Perhaps a portrait of Alexander, 4th Duke of Gordon (1745-1827); portraits of the Duke show that this is not unlikely.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1818
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- J,1.148
