A grotesquely caricatured, thin and ragged Tom Paine, dressed as a tailor with huge scissors hanging from his pants, kneels before a gigantic crown; he uses a tape measure to determine its dimensions. He wears a French-style hat with a cockade inscri...
Alternative Title:
Tommy Paine, the little American taylor, taking the measure of the crown for a new pair of revolution breeches
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 23th [sic], 1791, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809, and Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809.
A satire on the new fashion of Jean Debry coats: A tailor holds a mirror to a customer who looks at his image with horror. The customer complains that he has put a hump upon each shoulder. The tailor replies that the coat has been made to his wife's...
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Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Oct. 1st, 1799, by R. Akerman, No. 101 Strand
"In a bare room with a raftered roof couples are energetically dancing, holding hands behind their backs, or above their heads. The women, with one exception, are young and handsome, the men ugly and plebeian. A seated fiddler plays with closed eyes (...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Febry. 20, 1814, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Heideloff, Nicolaus Innocentius Wilhelm Clemens von, 1761-1837, printmaker
Published / Created:
October 1807.
Call Number:
Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 8
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Domestic scene based on Beresford's 'Miseries of Human Life': three tailors (or his apprentices) at work disturbed by woman carrying a tray of cucumbers on her head
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published by R. Ackermann Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
"A paunchy carbuncled fellow, wearing old-fashioned court-dress, with ribbon, star, sword, and bag-wig, peacocks with hands on hips before an amused group in a narrow 'Whitechaple' street. They are outside the new peer's shop, from which projects a po...
Alternative Title:
Breeches maker become a lord
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by T. Rowlandson, No. 1 James Str., Adelphi
Subject (Topic):
Butchers, Couples, Dogs, Social classes, Social mobility, Snobbishness, and Tailors
An obese man in elegant dress struts down Fleet Street as his fellow tailors roar with laughter at his pompous attire. In the background, a woman (his wie?) put signs on the sides of the shops advertising breeches and other haberdashery. A dog barks ...
Alternative Title:
Taylor turned lord and Tailor turned lord
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Butchers, Couples, Dogs, Social classes, Social mobility, Snobbishness, and Tailors
