Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
The contrast.
Call Number
E South 11/GC021/Box 08/Normal/18th c./Artists Grose-N GA 2011.00638
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcp8419099x
Publisher
[London : [s.n.], n.d. [1788]
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1788
Extent
1 item ; sheet 28.7 x 24 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Removed from: Grose, Francis. Rules for drawing caricaturas: with an essay on comic painting. London: printed by A. Grant, for S. Hooper, 1788.
British Museum. Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires. [London]: Trustees of the British Museum, [1978]. No. 7460
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Medium: Etchings
Signed in plate, lower left: "F. Grose del. et sculp.".
Depiction: Caricature regarding obesity. Thin man and overweight woman standing together outdoors.

Discovery Information

Subject
Caricature
Spouses—Great Britain—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Obesity—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Leaness—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons

Physical Characteristics

File Count
2

Institutional Information

Collection
Omega Project
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/6c0cbb94-6778-4f00-892c-b6f21ee61c88/manifest