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Vamp in triumph
engraving
plate mark: 6 5/8 x 4 3/16 inches (168 x 106 mm); image: 5 1/2 x 3 9/16 inches (139 x 90 mm); sheet: 6 7/8 x 4 7/16 inches (174 x 113 mm)
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 1234
Published:
[London] : [Town and country magazine], [1780]
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes:
Print published Apr. 1, 1780 in: Town and country magazine, vol. xii. Cf. BM Satires.
Summary:
Engraving of a man standing in the pillory; from his coat pocket hangs a newspaper with the caption A Courant, illustrating a dialogue "Vamp in triumph; or the Pillory property filled. Being the Sequel of a Dialogue between Vamp and Squib, his news-collector"; the man stands on a raised circular platform, his head and hands in the pillory; a circle of grinning men surrounds him, some of them with decorated staves which show they they are constables.
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