Old Catalogue
Manuscripts, oral history and pictures catalogue
Adlib Internet Server 5
Try the new catalogue. Start exploring now ›

Details



Print
950331
  • Title
    A Bond Street Lounger recently detected
  • Call number
    V/230
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    [London] : Publish'd Novr. 18, 1802 by Laurie & Whittle. 53, Fleet Street, London
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    950331
  • Physical Description
    1 print - etching, coloured - plate mark 20.0 x 24.5 cm, on sheet 22.6 x 29.0 cm
  • Scope and Content
    Hand-coloured cartoon of a "Bond Street Lounger" being accosted by a woman in her bedroom looking for her gown. The woman grabs at a gown hidden underneath the gentleman's hat. Another gentleman looks back on the scene as he leaves the room
  • Copying Conditions
    Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
    Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
  • Description source

    Title taken from image
  • Signatures / Inscriptions

    Printed below image:
    'Sir you’ve stole my Gown here it is under your Hat, I had it on yesterday, and I know it by a tear in the Bottom _ Oh ! L__d Ma’m thats a good one upon my honor, ha ! ha ! A meer Joke I afsure you, us Men of Fashion frequently do the like of this in a Frolic , you may depend upon it Madam I am a Gemmam “I say Jack stop for me” _ “Jack I’ll be D_d if I do Joe ; you’re had'.

    Numbered '277' below image at lower left
  • Creator/Author/Artist
  • Subject
  • Topic
  • Browse collection hierarchy
  • Manuscript Index
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • Q
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • U
  • V
  • W
  • X
  • Y
  • Z

Share this result by email