A gentleman flurts with a young woman who stands on a small platform between her two empty baskets of wares and a bucket
Description:
Title from text above and below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark: Smith & Allnut 1818., and With stamp in lower right corner: Price 1 s.
Publisher:
Pub. by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Courtship and People associated with commercial & service activities
"A French petit-maître stands 'chapeau-bras' (left), in profile to the left, bending forward, his left hand in his breeches pocket, his right hand raised. Behind him are five ladies on their knees, making gestures of supplication. He wears bag-wig, laced suit, and sword. The ladies, who are young and pretty, wear feathered hats or feathers in their hair. He says, "parblue Mesdames vous n'y viendrez pas." Beneath the title is etched: 'With clasped hands and bended knees, They humbly sought the Count to please, And beg'd admission to his house, Not that for him they care'd a louse, But wish'd within his walls to shine, And shew those charms they think divine, His Ex beheld these Belles unmov'd, His A------e their impudence reproved, Cannaille he said shoud ne'er come there & rumped them with a pet en l'air'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
English ladies petition to His Excellency the Mushroom Ambassador and Politesse franc̦aise
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: French petit-maître -- Male costume: French, 1784 -- Ambassadors, 'Mushroom' -- Swords -- Supplication., and Watermark upper right corner: J. Whatman.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 4th, 1784, by H. Humphrey, Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Adhémar, Jean-Balthazar d'Azemar de Montfalcon, comte d', 1731-1791
BEIN Defoe 52 h720 Copy 1: 18 cm., Map and plates by Bernard Picart., and The fold. map, bound before p. [1] of v. 1, is repeated before p. [1] of v. 2 and v. 3. V. 3 : 16 cm.
Publisher:
L'Honoré & Chatelain,
Subject (Name):
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731. Farther adventures of Robinson Crusoe. French. 1720., Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731. Serious reflections of Robinson Crusoe. French. 1721., Effen, Justus van, 1684-1735., Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733., and Saint-Hyacinthe, Thémiseul de, 1684