print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 2010,7081.3029
- Title
- Object: A Morning Frolic, or the Transmutation of Sexes
- Description
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A soldier and a woman in deshabille swapping clothes; the woman standing hands on hips on the left wearing the sword and tricorn; the man sitting demurely on the right holding a fan and wearing a bonnet; tea-tray and four poster bed behind, a dog jumping up at a parrot on the left and a book open on the floor inscribed 'Ovid's Metamorphoses done into English'; after Collett.
Mezzotint with some etching
- Production date
- 1780 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 352 millimetres
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Width: 252 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See also the reduced version, dated 25 March 1780: 2010,7081.1968
Sale catalogue listings
Carington Bowles, 1784, p. 117 no. 428, among 'The following 34 new and elegant humorous Prints, are finely executed from the capital Paintings of that eminent Artist the late John Collet, Esq. in the Possession of Carington Bowles. Each print is 10 inches wide and 14 inches deep. When framed and glazed they make a handsome Appearance and Fashionable Furniture, and are always kept ready finished. Price 2s. plain, or finely coloured from the paintings, 3s. each.'; 1790, p. 107 no. 445, same price.
- Location
- Not on display
- 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
- 2010,7081.3029