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1. High-change in Bond Street, ou, La politesse du grande monde [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [27 March 1796]
- Call Number:
- 796.03.27.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Bond Street, the pavement receding diagonally from left to right, is thronged with fashionable pedestrians. In the foreground five fashionably dressed men advance, forming a phalanx which pushes on to the cobbled roadway a lady, dressed rather for the ball-room than the street, to whose arm clings a little girl; both are in back view. The men smile or leer. The lady's neck diminishes to a point, tresses of hair hang from her turban (cf. BMSat 8755), which is trimmed by a gigantic erect feather. Her over-dress hangs from her shoulders and swells into folds which sweep the ground. She holds a fan. (Small copy in Grego.) Behind (right) three ladies walk arm-in-arm in the roadway: a fat woman in a riding-habit, looking through an opera-glass, and two younger women, one with her face covered by a transparent veil reaching nearly to the (knees, the other looking demurely down. Among the crowd in the background a man arm-in-arm with a military officer in back view (? Lord Moira) resembles Fox."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Politesse du grande monde
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. March 27th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress, Crowds, Etiquette, Show windows, and Window displays
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > High-change in Bond Street, ou, La politesse du grande monde [graphic]