Love, or, An exquisite at his devotions [graphic].

Creator:

Crowquill, Alfred, printmaker.

Published/Created:

[London] :
Pubd. by E. King 23 Chancery Lane,
Sepr. 1825.

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.2 x 34.9 cm, on sheet 25.7 x 36.6 cm.

Notes:

Title from caption below image.
Questionable attribution to Crowquill from British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark on upper edge.
CtY-LW

Abstract:

"An effeminate dandy, elongated and with very thin arms and legs, leans back in a chair, one thin arm drooping to the ground, the other curving over his head, his fingers caressing a curl on his forehead. He gazes sideways with a languishing smile at his reflection in the toilet-table glass. He has a thread-like moustache, blue tail-coat with high collar and sleeves, a rose in the button-hole, a white collar and cravat, white waistcoat with a long gold watch-chain round the neck, long light pantaloons, tight from the knee, full at the waist; low pumps with very-pointed toes. On the dressing-table are brush and comb, stoppered bottle, &c, and long tube-like bottle (of Eau de Cologne). Behind (right) on a similar chair a monkey squats admiring its face in a hand-glass. The room is bare, but carpeted to the wall."--British Museum online catalogue.

Variant Titles:

Exquisite at his devotions

Topics:

Clothing & dress--England--1820-1830.
Dandies.
Dressing tables.
Mirrors.
Monkeys.
Rugs.

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings--England--London--1825.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1825.

Format:

Image

Rights:

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Call Number:

825.09.00.01+

Orbis Record:

9496520

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr12801

Citation:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires / Mary Dorothy George, v. 10, no. 14906

OID:

10970194

PID:

digcoll:975197