Title from caption below image., Plate from: Bridges, T. Burlesque translation of Homer. London, 1797?, Manuscript annotation citing illustration as being from book ix, page 78 in unidentified edition., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., No. 65 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on two edges., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Umbrellas -- Baskets.
Title from lines of dialogue below image., Title continues: ... Please sir, he sends his respectful compliments and says, dont you wish you may get 'em., and Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record.
A beautiful, fashionably-dressed young woman is seated in a chair leaning her elbow on a table as she looks out a window. On the pane abover her head is a sign "An apartment to let for a single gentleman."
Description:
Title from caption below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J. Whatman.
Title from item., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Year of publication altered. Ms. '6' added over last digit of 1825.
An old English farmer (left) dressed in top boots, breeches, a flat felt hat, and carrying a riding-whip arrives in town and is startled at seeing his son (right) dressed as a macaroni with very high toupée wig, a cane with a tassle, a sword, and a little cocked hat
Description:
Title from caption below image., Companion print to: Heyday! is this my daughter Anne., Sheet trimmed to plate mark with loss of imprint., Possibly after a drawing by Grimm. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v.4, no. 4536 for a similar print with the same title., No. 5 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Farmers, Hairstyles, Staffs (Sticks), and Wigs
An old English farmer (left) dressed in top boots, breeches, a flat felt hat, and carrying a riding-whip arrives in town and is startled at seeing his son (right) dressed as a macaroni with very high toupée wig, a cane with a tassle, a sword, and a little cocked hat
Description:
Title etched below image., After a drawing by Grimm. This is a copy in reverse of Carington Bowles in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, no. 4536., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer & I. Bennet, No. 53 Fleet Street, London, as the act directs
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Farmers, Hairstyles, Staffs (Sticks), and Wigs