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Fashionable Contrasts; - or - The Duchess's Little Shoe Yielding to the Magnitude of the Duke's Foot

Maker

(etcher)
1757-1815

(publisher)
(active 1778-1822) (Life dates)

Title

Fashionable Contrasts; - or - The Duchess's Little Shoe Yielding to the Magnitude of the Duke's Foot

Date of Production

1792

Medium

printed on chine collé

Dimensions

Height: 25.2 cm
Width: 35.3 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.7034

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Literature

Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, 11 vols
Fig. p. no. 8058

Inscriptions

Inscription: Pub. Jan.y 24.th 1792. / by H. Humphrey / N.18 Old Bond Street //

Inscription: FASHIONABLE CONTRASTS; _or_The Duchess's little Shoe yeilding to the Magnitude of the Duke's Foot. / 20 //

Inscription: J. GILLRAY / Fashionable Contrasts //

Stamp: WITT / LIBRARY //

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