| Method | Etching with hand colouring |
| Artist | Daniel Thomas Egerton |
| Published | London, Published by Thomas McLean, Repository of Wit & Humour, 26 Haymarket, 1823 |
| Dimensions | Image 134 x 198 mm, Plate 188 x 238 mm, Sheet 257 x 365 mm |
| Notes |
Inscription underneath image: 'Drive about with a Protege Tom Thumb for a Groom: This will appear at least as if you could afford to keep servants for show as well as use. Your equipage must be perfectly en Militaire and you may venture to mount a Cockade tho not entitled to it for not one in Five Hundred will search the Army List for your qualification.' From Daniel Thomas Egerton's 'The Necessary Qualifications of a Man of Fashion' which was published in 1823 by Thomas McLean. Daniel Thomas Egerton (1797–1842) was a British artist, who was mostly known for his landscape paintings and satirical prints. He was one of the founding members of the Society of British Artists, and exhibited with them in 1824, 1829, 1838 and 1840. He travelled to Mexico several times and gained more fame towards the end of his life from his Views of Mexico, a set of hand coloured lithographs published c. 1840. A year later he would leave his family of a wife and two sons, to move to Mexico with nineteen year old Alice Edwards, the daughter of a befriended British artist. Egerton and Alice were found murdered in the streets of Tacubaya (Mexico City) in April of 1842. The murder was never resolved, as the couple was carrying cash and wearing expensive jewellery, which were strangely left untouched, and Alice was eight months pregnant at the time. Condition: Strong impression with full margins. Binding holes to left side of the sheet, not affecting image. |
| Framing | unmounted |
| Price | £120.00 |
| Stock ID | 43776 |