• Recovery of a dormant title, or A breeches maker become a lord

Language:
  • No linguistic content; Not applicable
Creator:
  • Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
Call number:
  • D North 52/GC112/Box 15/Normal/Prints/Titles Pl-Ri GA 2014.00440
Extent:
  • 1 item ; sheet 32.8 x 22.6 cm.
Format:
  • Visual material
Type:
  • Caricatures and cartoons
Description:
  • Medium: Etchings, Hand coloring
  • Depiction: The lately created nobleman, a coarse and common clothier, is swaggering in all his new finery, to give his past associates a taste of his new-found honours. His showy court dress is assumed with awkward pretension. He wears a ribbon and star a.
  • Item description: Date changed in plate to 1812, lower right. Also issued under the title: "Taylor Turn'd Lord . . .".
  • Signed in plate, lower left: "Rowlandson inv. 1805".
Publisher:
  • [London] : [s.n.], 1812/07/14.
Subject:
  • Caricature
  • Fashion—Great Britain—History—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
  • Nobility—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
  • Pride and vanity—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
  • City and town life—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
  • Contempt (Attitude)—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
  • Tailors—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
  • Cobblers—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
  • Occupations—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
  • Overweight men—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Date:
  • 1812
References:
  • Grego II, p. 51
Range label:
  • Logical
Source acquisition:
  • Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
Location:
  • GA D North 52/GC112/Box 15/Normal/Prints/Titles Pl-Ri GA 2014.00440
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
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Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/h128nn81x