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Fashionable contrasts in Helsinki
Author
Title
Fashionable contrasts in Helsinki [art original] / after James Gillray ; © Steve Bell 2018-18-7.
Production
Brighton, England, [18 July 2018]
Copyright Notice Date
Brighton, England : Steve Bell, 2018.
Physical Description
1 drawing : pen and ink and watercolor ; image 7 x 20 cm, on sheet 23 x 31 cm
Notes
Title written in black ink in artist's hand at bottom of image.
Signed and dated by the artist along right edge.
"19-7-7898"-- Written in black ink in artist's hand along left edge of image.
With a stamp on the verso with the artist's name, address, contact information, and copyright claim.
"Belltoons.co.uk"--Embossed on sheet between images and on upper edge right (trimmed).
With a second sheet of paper hinged on top with the number: 7897-17-7-18, 7897-18-7-18, 7897-19-7-18.
Provenance
Purchased from the artist, July 2021.
Summary
The third in a series of "If" strips, published in The Guardian on 18 July 2018 without the speech bubble. "Inspired by James Gillray's print "Fashionable contrasts, or, The Duchess's little shoe yeilding [sic] to the magnitude of the Duke's foot" of 1792. The Helsinki summit was portrayed as something of a "love-in" between the two notoriously macho politicians, which may have troubled Putin, who had imposed his own law outlawing "propaganda of non-traditional sexual relationshiips" among minors in 2013."--Steve Bell.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 24, 2021
References
Steve Bell, Fashionable Contrasts in Helsinki. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Steve Bell, Fashionable Contrasts in Helsinki. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Political cartoons.
Caricatures.
Satires (Visual works)
Ink drawings.
Watercolors.
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