The Unpleasant Rencontre
Daniel Thomas Egerton (London 1797 - Mexico City 1842)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1824
Materials
Paper
Measurements
266 x 322 mm; 225 mm (Height); 281 mm (Width)
Place of origin
London
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Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 206129
Summary
Carriage drawing. Print, 'The Unpleasant Rencontre'. Designed and etched by D.T. Egerton. London Published by Thomas McLean, 26 Haymarket, 1824. The script reads: 'Some Ladies are so fastidious, that should they stumble on their Lord and master elect as he is stealing out of the Temple of Venus, they might cease to treat him with their former cordiality and perhaps talk of postponing the happy day; this bore encreases in proportion to the Lady’s weighty recommendations, and as far as you have succeeded in keeping at bay a host of daily visitors by the prospect of shortly being united to an Heiress’.
Provenance
Part of the Bambridge Collection. The hall and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust in 1976 by Mrs Elsie Bambridge (1896-1976)
Makers and roles
Daniel Thomas Egerton (London 1797 - Mexico City 1842), designer Thomas MacLean (1788 - 1875), engraver and publisher Daniel Thomas Egerton (London 1797 - Mexico City 1842), etcher