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A beau 1700. A beau 1791.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Title
A beau 1700. A beau 1791.
Description
English: Two superimposed prints connected at the upper edge by a paper hinge; on each is a fashionably dressed man, the same face serving for both, a hole being cut in the upper print.


[1] A man wearing a voluminous curled wig which rises above his head
and falls down his shoulders, full-skirted coat, wide cuffs, flapped and
embroidered waistcoat, short breeches above his knees, a lace cravat with
long ends, and high-quartered shoes. He wears a sword and holds a cane
in his left hand, his hat being under his left arm. Beneath the title is engraved:

'Then the full flaxen wig, spread o'er the shoulders,
Conceal'd the shallow head from the beholders.
Turn up.'

[2] A man wearing the tight-fitting dress of 1791, with cropped hair and a high hat with a narrow brim. His hands are on his hips, and he holds a bludgeon. His coat has a shawl-like collar, he wears a short double-breasted waistcoat with revers within which is a voluminously swathed neckcloth. His tight breeches, buttoned along the outside of the leg, reach nearly to the ankles. His low shoes are tied with strings. Beneath the title is engraved:

'But now the whole's revers'd - each fop appears,
Cropp'd and trimm'd up - exposeing head and ears' 22 November 1791


Etching
Date 1791
date QS:P571,+1791-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 210 millimetres
Width: 114 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
J,5.91-92
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938)

One of many satires on the men's dress of the period, see BMSat 8040, &c.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_J-5-91-92
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