Miseries of human life, "Inviting a friend…"
Item Information
- Title:
- Miseries of human life, "Inviting a friend…"
- Artist:
- Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809
- Name on Item:
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Woodward Del. Cruikshanks sc.
- Date:
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[1807–1821]
- Format:
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Prints
- Genre:
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Etchings
Caricatures
- Location:
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Boston Public Library
Arts Department - Collection (local):
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Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings
- Series:
- The Caricature Magazine or Hudibrastic Mirror Vol. 4
- Subjects:
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Food
Dogs
Odors
Servants
- Extent:
- 1 print : hand-colored etching ; sheet 26 x 39 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/x346dn98r
- Terms of Use:
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No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
- Publisher:
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London, 111 Cheapside :
T. Tegg
- Language:
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English
- Notes:
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Title from item.
Grego, II, p. 115.
On item: 244.
Caption on item: Inviting a friend (whom you know to be particulary fond of the dish) to partake of a fine hare, haunch &c. which you have endeavoured to keep exactly to the critical moment, but which is no sooner brought in, than the whole party with one nose order it to be taken out.
- Notes (acquisition):
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The Albert H. Wiggin Collection, 1941
- Notes (date):
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Date supplied by cataloger from published dates of prints in this series.
This date is inferred.
- Notes (citation):
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Grego, Joseph. "Rowlandson the caricaturist; a selection from his works with anecdotal descriptions of his famous caricatures, in two volumes." London: Chatto and Windus, 1880
- Notes (object):
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Bound in "The Caricature Magazine or Hudibrastic Mirror Vol. 4," the fourth volume in a set of five published under this title by Thomas Tegg. The five volumes contained 251 prints in all.
- Identifier:
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18_03_000491
- Barcode:
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36666003272701
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