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The Contrast   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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After: Robert Dighton

Published by: Carington Bowles
Title
The Contrast
Description
English: Satire: the interior of a well-appointed tavern, with a thin, fashionably dressed Frenchman on the left, mocking a fat Englishman who is smoking a pipe, his tankard labelled 'John / Bull / the / George', while others look on; a serving woman stands at a bar in the background; the case of the clock on the wall has a chinoiserie design; date erased. 1783
Hand-coloured mezzotint with etching
Date 1783
date QS:P571,+1783-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 351 millimetres
Width: 252 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1935,0522.1.71
Notes

The allusion in the antagonists' conversation is to the conclusion of the American War of Independence. Dighton's original watercolour for this print was sold at Sotheby's, 30 April 1953 and again from the collection of Mr Jeffrey Rose at Sotheby's, 23 February 1978, lot 97.

See 2010,7081.904 for a state with the date
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1935-0522-1-71
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(Reusing this file)		 © The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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