Ease & elegance [graphic].

Description

Title: Ease & elegance [graphic].
Alternative Title: Ease and elegance
Contributor: Beugo, Alexander, active 1801-1827, publisher.
Published / Created: [21 August 1805]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. Aug. 21st, 1805 by A. Beugo, Maiden Lane, Covent Garden
Abstract: "Social satire: the actor Charles Dignum stands in a large tricorn hat with one hand in his pocket, the other in his waistcoat; text below explains that the image is to help fine singers, or players, attain the "consequence so necessary for gaining Fortune & Fame", rather than to represent true grace in the drawing room."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Four lines of explanatory text below title: This is not intended to represent any of that grace so bewitching in a drawing room, but merely to assist a fine singer, a good player, or any public characters in the attainment of consequence, so necessary for gaining fortune & fame.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Mounted to 22 x 15 cm.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xii.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 18.9 x 10.1 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1805
Etchings England London 1805
Drypoints England London 1805
Material: etching and drypoint with stipple ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
Subject (Name): Dignum, Charles, 1765-1827
Subject (Topic): Clothing & dress
Actors
Subjects: Dignum, Charles, 1765-1827 > Caricatures and cartoons
Clothing & dress > England > 1800-1810
Actors
England > 1805
England > London > 1805

Access: Public
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