Bond Street, the pavement receding diagonally from left to right, is thronged with fashionable pedestrians. In the foreground five fashionably dressed men advance, forming a phalanx which pushes on to the cobbled roadway a lady, dressed rather for the ball-room than the street, to whose arm clings a little girl; both are in back view. The men smile or leer. The lady's neck diminishes to a point, tresses of hair hang from her turban, which is trimmed by a gigantic erect feather. Her over-dress hangs from her shoulders and swells into folds which sweep the ground. She holds a fan. Behind (right) three ladies walk arm-in-arm in the roadway: a fat woman in a riding-habit, looking through an opera-glass, and two younger women, one with her face covered by a transparent veil reaching nearly to the (knees, the other looking demurely down.
Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.
Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.
High-change in Bond Street, ou, La politesse du grande monde / Js. Gy. d. et fect.
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James Gillray
1756-1815
High-change in Bond Street, ou, La politesse du grande monde / Js. Gy. d. et fect.
hand colored etching
image: 24.7 x 34.3 cm; plate: 25.3 x 35.1 cm; sheet: 26.8 x 37 cm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2932
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[London] : H. Humphrey, 1796.
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Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
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