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The back-side of front row   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: Richard Brinsley Sheridan (?)

Published by: Matthew Darly
Title
The back-side of front row
Description
English: The back view of a number of persons seated on a low bench, caricaturing the dress of the period, especially the high-dressed hair, see BMSat 5370, &c, and inflated appearance due to 'cork rumps', see BMSat 5381, &c, which was combined with very tight lacing, see BMSat 5444, &c.


The persons are (left to right.): a man with a clerical wig, his head turned in profile to the right.; a small child dressed like a woman with pinched waist, and cap trimmed with flowers and lace; a thin woman looking at her neighbour on the right., she has a monstrous erection of hair decorated with lace and flowers, pinched waist and inflated skirt; a fat woman, looking to the left, similarly but more plainly dressed; a man with a long pigtail queue, who is perhaps 'Richard Sneer'; he turns to his neighbour on the right., his hand at the back of her waist; a woman with a rectangular variation of the prevailing head-dress and elaborately braided hair; she is rather smaller than the other women and appears to be intended for a young girl. At the right. end of the bench sits a woman looking to the left whose head-dress is even more high and elaborate than that of the others. 1 January 1777


Etching with some use of the rocker
Depicted people Associated with: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Date 1777
date QS:P571,+1777-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 251 millimetres
Width: 356 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1865,0610.1115
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935)

These persons, as well as the print itself, appear in BMSat 5435. BMSat 5376 also belongs to the same set.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1865-0610-1115
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