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Recovery of a dormant title, or A breeches maker become a lord.
1812
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Metadata
- Call Number
- D North 52/GC112/Box 15/Normal/Prints/Titles Pl-Ri GA 2014.00440
- Publisher
- [London] : [s.n.], 1812/07/14.
- People
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- Language
- No linguistic content
- 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
- Shoemakers—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Occupations—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Overweight men—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
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Item Summary
Descriptive Information
- Title
- Recovery of a dormant title, or A breeches maker become a lord.
- Call Number
- D North 52/GC112/Box 15/Normal/Prints/Titles Pl-Ri GA 2014.00440
- Identifier
- ark:/88435/h128nn81x
- Publisher
- [London] : [s.n.], 1812/07/14.
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Date Created
- 1812
- Extent
- 1 item ; sheet 32.8 x 22.6 cm.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
- References
- Grego II, p. 51
- Rights Statement
- No Known Copyright
- Notes
- 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 and a dress sword. None of these decorations harmonise with the wearer, who is so evidently out of place in his fine feathers, that the journeymen tailors and cobblers, his neighbors and recent comrades, are jeering at his burlesque dignity. His lady dressed in unbecoming finery, and carrying a large plume of feathers on her head, looks no less "out of character" than does her tailoring spouse. The shop, over which appears, Stitchall, White-chapel, Breeches cleaned and repaired, once the pride of the pair, is now closed . . . .
- 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".
Discovery Information
- 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
- Shoemakers—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Occupations—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Overweight men—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 1
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/17d634f4-e19e-4812-9cc5-3adeefef4fbf/manifest