Prints: P1294

Title

Magazin de Modes

Subject

Liston, John

Artist

Heath, WilliamMcLean, Thomas

Dimensions

height: 24.5cm
width: 36.4cm

Other materials

Hand coloured Etching.

Inscription/signature

Speech from Paul Pry: " I hope I don't intrude- just look'd in to see/ the new style left my Umbrella in the corner./Profigious!!!" Bottom of image: "MAGAZIN DE MODES"/ Pub McLean 26 Haymarket"

Provenance

Formerly in the collection of Professor Jim Davis, acquired by the Garrick Club in 2024

Other number

E0162

This is a print depicts tthe actor John Liston as Paul Pry in a fashionable clothes shop. All the hats and dresses are extravagantly over the top and enstra large. On the right hand side is a dress trimmed with ermine suggesting a royal dress. Paul Pry is depicted full length standing in the middle of the picture, looking to his left towards a woman kneeling with her arms crossed. She wears a red gown, black april, and a large hat complete with lace, blue ribbons, feathers and pink and yellow flowers.