H Beard Print Collection
9
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
9
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
H Beard Print Collection is a 9 by S. W. Fores, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This print pokes fun at high society in 1803. It shows a noisy crowd at a fancy event that feels like a fish market. The artist turned polite chatter into bickering and laughter. The scene is a “racket at a rout,” meaning a big upset at a party. The Victoria and Albert Museum keeps the original print safe. Look up the artist S. W. Fores.
A color caricature titled *A Racket at a Rout, or Billingsgate Removed to the West* depicts a chaotic social gathering where rowdy behavior reminiscent of Billingsgate fish-market vulgarity has infiltrated a refined event.
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This printmaker carved out a lively slice of British history in black and white. Between 1802 and 1818 they turned news and politics into small broadside prints on single sheets, often stamped with the H Beard Print…
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