Charles-James Cub Esqr. [graphic].

Description

Title: Charles-James Cub Esqr. [graphic].
Published / Created: [approximately 1770]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Satire: a standing man in a fine dress with the head of a fox."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched above image.
Date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark on three sides.
Two lines of verse below image: By little actions striving to be great, and proud to be, and to be thought a cheat. Jenyns.
Plate from: The London museum of politics, miscellanies, and literature. London : printed for J. Miller, v. 3 (1771), p. 309.
Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Male dress: French inflence, 1771 -- Literature: quotation from The modern fine gentleman by Soame Jenyns, 1704-1787.
Mounted to 30 x 38 cm.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966;
Extent: 1 print on : plate mark 18 x 12 cm, on sheet 19 x 12 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Periodical illustrations England 1770
Satires (Visual works) England 1770
Engravings England London 1770
Etchings England London 1770
Material: etching and engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Subject (Topic): Dandies
British
Clothing & dress
Foxes
Subjects: Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Dandies > British
Clothing & dress
Foxes
England > 1770
England > London > 1770

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