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Recovery of a Dormant Title or a Breeches (Maker Become a Lord), 14 July 1805

 Item — Box: LF100 Box 1
Reference code: LF100/22
Recovery of a Dormant Title or a Breeches (Maker Become a Lord), 14 July 1805
Recovery of a Dormant Title or a Breeches (Maker Become a Lord), 14 July 1805

Scope and Contents

Engraving (coloured impression). A paunchy carbuncled fellow, wearing old-fashioned court-dress, with ribbon, star, sword, and a bag-wig, peacocks with hands on hips before an amused group in a narrow 'Whitechaple' street. They are outside the new peer’s shop, from which projects a pole supporting a sign: 'Breeches cleaned lined and Repaired' and an old pair of breeches. A fat woman, probably his wife, wearing a feathered cap, stands on a step-ladder scrubbing the board above the shop-front: 'Stitchall Breeches [Maker] to his Serene Highness the…' On the shop is a bill 'To be Sold the good Will of the Shop – Removed to Grovesner Place'. The upstart looks over his shoulder with sour defiance at the neighbours who crowd round him, highly amused, a butcher in the forefront. An aged tailor holding shears gapes in amazement. Grego, 'Rowlandson', 11. 51. Description from the Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Vol. VIII. 10483.

Dates

  • Creation: 14 July 1805

Conditions Governing Access

Physical item available by appointment in our Reading Room

Extent

1 Item(s)

Language of Materials

English

Repository Details

Part of the Special Collections and Archives Repository

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