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• Author/Creator:Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist.
  
• Title:The swing in style [art original].
  
• Production:[England], [ca. 1790]
  
• Physical Description:1 drawing : pen and black ink within letterpress ornamental border ; sheet 22.7 x 19 cm.
  

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  • Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings (Non-Circ)
    Request for Use in the Lewis Walpole Library
    
    
  • Call Number: Drawings W87 no. 8 Box D170
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Notes:For further information, consult library staff.
    
  • Provenance:Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. viii.
    
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• Medium:wove paper.
  
• Notes:Title from letterpress caption below image.
  Pen and ink drawing on a letterpress broadside with ornamental border.
  Letterpress caption in six lines below image: May be practised with a small cane, switch, or whip, giving the arm full play; the practitioner should be a young giddy fellow, about one and twenty ...
  One of a series of six drawings by Woodward with the same letterpress heading.
  
• Summary:A young, fashionably dressed man walks down the street while sweeping his walking stick back in forth in front of him. He has struck a passerby on the shin, the latter holding the injury in both hands wincing in pain. From the caption: ... who must always remember when in action to sing or whistle a tune, in order that the swing may be kept in proper time. By carefully observing these rules, great execution may be performed on the ancles [sic] and shins of every person within the sphere of attraction.
  
• Publications:Image later incorporated into an etching by Isaac Cruikshank. Six different methods of carrying a stick with their effects. Published by Allen & West ... Aug. 1 1796.
  
• Variant and related titles:In-house title: Six different methods of carrying a stick with their effects. Compartment no. 1
  
• Format:Visual Material
• Series:Six different methods of carrying a stick with their effects ; compartment no. 1
  
• Cite as:G.M. Woodward, The Swing in Style. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
  
• Subjects:Staffs (Sticks)
  Etiquette.
  Accidents.
  
• Genre/Form:Humorous pictures.
  Satires (Visual works)--England--1790.
  Ink drawings--British--18th century.