20 pictures on 2 joined sheets : hand-colored lithographs ; sheets end-to-end 13 x 262 cm, accordion folded to 13 x 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Prints
Notes:
Depicts twenty humorous incidents at the seaside. Several of the images depict bathing machines, devices popular in the 18th and 19th centuries to allow people to change out of their usual clothes into swimwear.
Exhibition History:
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29)
Subject Terms:
Caricatures and cartoons -- Great Britain. | Satire, English. | Wit and humor, Pictorial. | Seashore -- Great Britain -- Pictorial works. | Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- Humor.