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The old beau in an extasy
Title
The old beau in an extasy [graphic] / drawn from the life & ext. by J. Dixon.
Publication
[London]: Printed for Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London, publish'd as the act directs, [1773]
Physical Description
1 print : mezzotint ; plate mark 35.4 x 25.2 cm, on sheet 39 x 30 cm
Medium
laid paper
Local Notes
Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Old men -- Male dress: dressing gown -- Domestic service: valet -- Furniture: hanging bookcase -- Dressing table -- Mirror stand -- Cosmetics -- Wigs: toupée wig with queue -- Pictures amplifying subject: Narcissus admiring his own image in the stream -- Clocks -- Emblems: window curtain tassel as a fool's cap.
Notes
Title from item.
Publication date from British Museum catalogue.
Eight lines of verse in two columns, one on each side of title: Behold this wretch! A fop at sixty two, a true conceited, ugly, worn out beau ...
Exhibited: "Preposterous Headdresses and Feathered Ladies" at The Lewis Walpole Library, Farmington, CT, May - October 2003.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 21, 2008
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 4, no. 4532
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1773.
Mezzotints - England - London - 1773.
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