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The First of April
Description
English: Satire on a dissolute aristocrat, probably first issued in a magazine. A richly dressed young man, his hair tied in an elaborate queue, grasps a creditor, who holds a lengthy bill amounting to £500, by the shoulder and raises his stick at him; to the right, three other creditors look on in alarm, one holding a bill amounting to £2000; to the left, are two young women with hair dressed high one holding a lapdog; a monkey, dressed like the young man, squats on a chair aiming a gun at the creditors and two small dogs bark. On the wall behind are six pictures illustrating forms self destruction: a huntsman is attacked by his hounds; a fallen rider is kicked by his horse; a man pulls down his own house on his head; a man sitting in front of a mirror places a gun in his mouth; two lovers on a bed are surprised by the woman's husband who stabs the man with his sword; two men fight a duel under the gaze of an owl, or parrot, on a stand while a body hangs from a gallows in the distance.
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Date circa 1780
date QS:P571,+1780-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 139 millimetres (trimmed?, image)
Width: 88 millimetres (trimmed, image)
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.13226
Notes The style and costume and hairstyle of of the ladies suggest a date around 1780
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-13226
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(Reusing this file)		 © The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
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