Pretensions Collection

Cartoon, Dignity and Impudence or The Domestics Derision -- two servants look out from an upstairs window, laughing at the pretensions of a haughty woman and her dog

Buddha & Dustman
SIDDHARTHA GAUTAMA, known as the BUDDHA ( Enlightened One ) He shows that he has relinquished aristocratic pretensions by befriending a low-caste refuse collector Date: 563? BC - 483? BC

Englishman of 1685
The body-coat has now become the universal fashion, as have the wide knee-breeches : wigs are universally worn by men with any pretensions to being in the swim Date: circa 1685

Street Tea Sellers
GENUINE TEA COMPANY A satire on the passion for tea drinking and the pretensions of the lower orders to middle class gentility

British Workman
A typical English worker of the lower middle class - specifically, a calico printers clerk - with some pretensions to gentility in his choice of clothes

Dancing Lesson at Home
A well-to-do family employ a dancing-master to teach them the quadrille - proficiency in dancing was a necessary accomplishment for anyone with social pretensions

ERASMUS MONTANUS
Holbergs satire Erasmus Montanus derides the intellectual pretensions of college-educated scholars. It is still produced today, its mockery as apposite as ever

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