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Snobs and snobbishness
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Four groups of figures in conversation. Coloured etching after G.M. Woodward, ca. 1800.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.Date: [1799/1800]Reference: 493423i
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A young woman implores her father to allow her to marry a politician who supported a different candidate in the Middlesex by-election from the one favoured by the father. Engraving by J. Miller, 1769.
Miller, John, 1715-1790?Date: [1769]Reference: 27324i
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A vain woman (Lady Pentweazle) sits to a portrait-painter (Carmine) while a servant holds her lapdog. Mezzotint by D. Lucas, 1832, after R. Smirke.
Smirke, Robert, 1752-1845.Date: [1832]Reference: 33188i
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A snobbish mother resistant to her daughter's doctor using a vaccine from their neighbour's child. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1872.
Du Maurier, George, 1834-1896.Date: 1872Reference: 13807i