Williams (Charles)
A Snow-Drop in Full Bloom, vide Bond Street lounge,
, S.W. Fores, 1803.
a social satire depicting a large elderly lady driving a four-wheeled phaeton, drawn by a pair of horses, across open countryside, a groom follows on another horse. The composition is based on an anonymous drawing, also in the British Museum collection, titled ‘A Snow-Drop now in full Bloom in Bond Street. The subject is Miss Snow, who was associated in other caricatures with the Prince of Wales and Mrs Fitzherbert..
240 by 345mm (9½ by 13½ inches).
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engraving with original hand-colouring on laid paper, the gamboge yellow heightened with gum-arabic, slight browning and a marginal exposure line, a repaired split at the lower sheet edge just extending into the title field, [BM Satires 10174],
| Dimensions | 240345913 cm |
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| Dimensions | 240 by 345mm (9½ by 13½ inches). |
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