Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Heath, William, 1795-1840
Title:
Fashion and folly, or, The buck's pilgrimage [graphic]
Alternate Title(s):
Buck's pilgrimage
Published / Created:
London : Published by William Sams, St. James's Street, [1822]
Physical Description:
24 pictures on 1 joined sheet : hand-colored aquatint ; sheets end-to-end 13 x 617 cm, in cylindrical case 16 cm x 7 cm (scroll format)
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
NC1479.H44 F377 1822
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Prints
Notes:
Title and imprint from publisher's original label.

Abbey, J.R. Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 487

Engravings by and after William Heath.

Issued in a boxwood drum.

BAC: British Art Center is the Abbey copy. In original boxwood drum.

24 hand-colored scenes. Each scene with four lines of verse.
Subject Terms:
Caricatures and cartoons -- Great Britain -- 19th century. | English wit and humor, Pictorial. | Satire, English. | Fashion -- Great Britain. | Clothing and dress -- Great Britain. | Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. | Sams, William -- Publisher.
Form/Genre:
Satire. | Panoramas -- England. | Scrolls -- England -- 19th century. | Caricatures. | Aquatints -- Hand-colored -- 1822. | Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1822.