Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Dighton, Richard, 1795-1880
Title:
The mirror of fashion [graphic] / Richard Dighton, 1823.
Published / Created:
[London] : Published by William Sams, bookseller to his Royal Highness the Duke of York, opposite the Palace, St. James Street, London, 1822.
Physical Description:
1 print : hand-colored etchings ; sheets end-to-end 15 x 335 cm, rolled (in boxwood case) to 15 x 7 cm (scroll format)
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
GT737 .D54 1822 Flat
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Prints
Notes:
Humorous panoramic view of men's fashions with captions.

Title from original decorated boxwood drum dated 1823. Imprint from panorama, dated 1822.

Abbey, J.R. Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 491

BAC: British Art Center copy is the Abbey copy. In publisher's original boxwood drum with engraved label.
Subject Terms:
Fashion -- Great Britain -- Humor. | Clothing and dress -- Caricatures and cartoons. | English wit and humor, Pictorial. | Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Form/Genre:
Etchings -- Hand-colored -- 1822. | Panoramas -- England -- London. | Caricatures.
Contributors:
Sams, William, publisher.