Well-a-day, Is this my Son Tom, Probably after Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, ca. 1773

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Well-a-day, Is this my Son Tom, ca. 1773, Etching and engraving, sheet: 19 1/4 x 14 3/16 in. ( x 36 cm), Prints, Probably after Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (Swiss, Bern 1733–1794 London (active Britain from 1768)), The extremes of 'macaroni' male fashion are mocked in this image which shows a fashionably dressed young man encountering his father during a visit home to the country. The older man, wearing the loose old-fashioned suit of a prosperous farmer, greets Tom with consternation

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Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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