The Spital Fields phaeton [graphic].

Edition:

[2nd state].

Copyright Date:

Jany. 5, 1773.

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.9 x 25.2 cm, on sheet 20 x 27 cm

Notes:

Title etched below image.
Later of the two known states, with additions to the design and with different plate number. For the earlier state, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 773.01.05.01.1.
Plate numbered "V. 2" in upper left corner and "10" in upper right corner.
Plate later reissued by R. Sayer with a different title. Cf. No. 5176 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Temporary local subject terms: Vehicles: Phaeton -- 'Cits' -- Domestic service: Footman -- Postilions -- Wooden legs.

Abstract:

"An obese citizen sits in a small heavily-built phaeton, drawn (left to right) by a clumsy pony ridden by an elderly postilion with a wooden leg, ambling slowly along. ... Behind the carriage stands a footman in macaroni dress; his master is dressed in a more old-fashioned manner."--British Museum online catalogue, description of reissued state.

Topics:

Carriages & coaches.
Dandies--British.
Peg legs.
Servants.

Topics:

Darly, M. (Mary), publisher.

Caption:

leaf 40 top

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings--England--London--1773.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1773.
Watermarks (Paper)--CtY-LW

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html

Source Title:

Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.

Call Number:

Folio 724 776D

Orbis Record:

8275884

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr37105a

OID:

16737570

PID:

digcoll:4711153