Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Characters in high life.
Call Number
D West 49/GC108/Box 01/Normal/Titles A-E GA 2006.01246
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/pn89d6697
Publisher
London : [s.n.], 1795/06/20.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1795
Extent
1 item ; sheet 34.5 x 24.5 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Etchings
Depiction: Caricature; political cartoon. Mary Isabella Somerset, Duchess of Rutland (1756-1831), with an unidentified man dressed in women's attire.
Inscribed in plate: "Sketch'd at the New Rooms, Opera House. // Delightful Task! to teach the young Idea how to shoot".
Provenance: Stamped on verso, "Princeton University // Library // Presented by // Dickson Q. Brown '95".
Signed in plate, lower left: "Js. Gy. des. et fect.".

Discovery Information

Subject
Fashion—Great Britain—History—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Caricature
Rutland, Mary Isabella Manners Duchess of 1756-1831—Caricatures and cartoons
Nobility—Great Britain—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/90a3e76c-d80b-48ac-9b4b-b29c5ddad744/manifest