Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Beef a la mode.
Call Number
D North 51/GC112/Box 02/Normal/Prints/Titles Ba-Br GA 2014.00098
Identifier
ark:/88435/zc77sz21k
Publisher
London : [s.n.], [1800]/02/14.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1800
Extent
1 item ; sheet 24.3 x 30.2 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Grego II, p. 3 (gives date as 1800/02/14)
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Etchings, Hand coloring
Depiction: A veritable bovine specimen, a fine Alderney, dressed out in the reigning mode. The fore part in female guise, on the head a gigantic hat of the cart-wheel order, straw trimmed and garnished, huge earrings, the extensive muslin "choker" a miniature of a bull round the cow's neck, ladies' buckled shoes, and ribboned sandles on the forelegs, and maccaroni's hessians and tassels on the hind ones. A lady's shawl thrown over the shoulders, according to the fashionable costume worn at the end of the eighteenth century.
Signed in plate, lower right: "Etched by Rowlandson".

Discovery Information

Subject
Caricature
Cows—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Fashion—Great Britain—History—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Anthropomorphism in art

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/caa7f2ba-588e-4221-add2-21951d073aa1/manifest