print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- J,5.5
- Title
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Object: Les dames Anglaises après-diné
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Series: Scènes Anglaises dessinées à Londres, par un français prisonnier de guerre
- Description
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A lady, stout and plain, her knees awkwardly apart, sits behind a small round tea-table filling a cup from a large urn. Seven other ladies sit on her right and left, in a semicircle, on upright chairs, in silent boredom. A child sits by its ugly middle-aged mother on the extreme right. A black servant in livery hands a tray on which are cups, cream-jug, and small (?) rolls. The room is bare except for table, chairs, and a narrow curtained window.
Plate numbered 1.
1814
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1814
- Dimensions
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Height: 247 millimetres
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Width: 342 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', IX, 1949)
One of a set, with the same sub-title, signature, and imprint, see Nos. 12351-3. No. 12354 belongs to the set but is without sub-title and signature. No. 3 is 'Les Boxeurs' (De Vinck, No. 7701). They illustrate topics common in the accounts of French visitors to England, here depicted as aspects of ennui, gaucherie, drunkenness, spleen, and brutality. See (e.g.) Defauconpret, 'Quinze jours à Londres à la fin de 1815', Paris, 1816. De Vinck, No. 7699.
(Supplementary information)
Date in an old hand.
This is the first of a series of 8 plates, of which the publication began in 1814 (to judge from the form of the Martinet address), and may have continued into 1815. None is listed in the 'Bibliographie de France', and they are all catalogued here as 1814.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1818
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- J,5.5