File:(Frontispiece to Anstey's election ball, 1776) (BM 1868,0808.4540).jpg

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[Frontispiece to Anstey's election ball, 1776]   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: William Hibbart

After: Coplestone Warre Bampfylde
Title
[Frontispiece to Anstey's election ball, 1776]
Description
English: A bedroom. A lady in stays and petticoat (Madge Inkle) seated at a dressing-table, decorating her hair with long cock's feathers. Her stout elderly husband (right), leaning on a walking-stick, looks on in surprise. A maidservant (left) is about to leave the room, holding a cock, from which all the tail-feathers have been plucked. A cat watches the cock, holding up one paw. A lady's dress hangs over a chair; shoes, cock's feathers, and a paper inscribed "Election Ball" lie on the floor. In the background is the tester of a bed with curtains. A half length portrait on the wall is inscribed "Sr Sim: Blunderhead". Beneath the design is engraved :



"Humano Capiti -- &c,---- ---&c.
Jungere si velit, et varias inducere plumas -
Spectatum admissi risum teneatis Amici?
Horat: de Art: Poet:" 28 March 1776


Etching
Date 1776
date QS:P571,+1776-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 223 millimetres
Width: 171 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.4540
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) >From 'The Election Ball', 3rd ed., Bath, 1776. Miss Banks has written on the back, "bought 1785", but it is clearly earlier. A note to the lines illustrated (p. 35) [See Object Description]:

"The Editor is sensible how very far Mr. Inkle's Description must fall short of the inimitable Design of the Frontispiece, which however he cannot value more as a masterly performance, than as a kind token of Approbation and Regard from his worthy and ingenious friend Coplestone Warre Bampfylde, Esq. of Hestercombe in Somersetshire."

See BMSat 5386 for another illustration of this subject. One of many satires on the monstrous hair-dressing of 1776, see BMSat 5370, &c.

Additional information: for the illustrations to 'The Election Ball', see BM Satires 5386-5390; these, also after Bampfylde, were etched by the Bath engraver William Hibbart, to whom this print is therefore also attributed.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-4540
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