Watercolor drawing of a caricatured tailor standing in profile to the left revealing an enormous paunch. He stands before a railing on a boardwalk with the ocean waves below. He desperately clutches a small girl in his left arm, a cane between his legs, and fumbles with an umbrella as a forcible gale blows away the remainder of his possessions including a pattern book, wig, hat, the child's bonnet, and tape measure. A dog crouches on his side in the lower left
Alternative Title:
Embarras des richesses
Description:
Title from ms. caption inscribed below drawing., Artist from British Museum catalogue., and Original drawing for a print by the same name etched by G. Cruikshank and published by G. Humphrey. Cf. no. 13435 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9.
Subject (Geographic):
Brighton (England),
Subject (Topic):
Dogs, Girls, Sewing equipment & supplies, Tailors, Wigs, and Winds
Opposite page 108. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
A man wearing his hat and holding his walking stick is seated in a chair before a fireplace enjoying the embrace of a lady seated to his right and with a high coiffure and feathered hat. A younger man with a tall egg-shaped toupée is being ushered out the door by another woman, perhaps a servant
Description:
Title from item., Monogram in lower left corner of image., Date of publication inferred from costume., Trimmed within plate mark; small hole in upper plate and folding and repairs to lower edge., and Bound in opposite page 108 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Hairstyles, Couples, Clothing & dress, Interiors, and Wigs
A satirical depiction of a machine which shaves six people in a line using a brush and razor which slide along a bar worked by a cogwheel turned by a man. In the lower left, a barber tends to a wig with curling tongs; a pile of hats along the lower design. A blunderbuss is used as powdering horn. With an address to the public below and key to numbered references below. Pictures on the walls amplifying the subject
Description:
Title from caption above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Caption below image begins: To the public. Whereas the wonderful powers of this useful machine are yet but little known ..., and Possibly the original of no. 15654 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 11.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Gearing, Hair preparations, Hairdressing, Inventions, Shaving equipment, and Wigs
Title assigned by cataloger., Other prints in the series were designed and etched by either Tim Bobbin or Thomas Sandars., Plate from: Human passions delineated in above 120 figures ... design'd in the Hogarthian style ... by Timo[thy] Bobbin. [Manchester] : John Heywood, 1773., Plate numbered '24' in upper right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Toupée wigs -- Club wigs -- Nosegays -- Female dress, 1773.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Wigs, Corsages, and Flowers
Page 163. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; questionable attribution to Thomas Walpole from local card catalog record., Date based on death date of Horace Walpole, who assembled the collection in which this drawing is found., The smaller sheet, on which the figure holding a muff is drawn, is pasted on the right portion of the larger sheet; the figure holding a fan is drawn on the left portion of the larger sheet., and Mounted on page 163 in a volume containing Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his Description of the villa of Horace Walpole (Hazen 2523) and his Catalogue of pictures and drawings in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry-Hill (Hazen 2619.4). Part of the collection: Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss Sebright, Miss Knight, Mrs. Damer, John Gooch, Samuel Lysons, Sir Edward Walpole, and Thomas Walpole (Hazen 3641).