Cooks, scullions, hear me evr'y mother's son canto 2d. [graphic]

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Title: Cooks, scullions, hear me evr'y mother's son canto 2d. [graphic]
Alternative Title: Cooks, scullions, hear me every mother's son
Fierce as staring Ajax from his seat
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist
Published / Created: [1787]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "A room crowded with cooks and scullions : a tall cook addresses the others with clenched fist, holding the queue of his hair. The others make similar gestures of indignation ; one negligently holds a spit transfixing a bird which a dog is eating. Against the wall hang birds, &c., and a poster: Royal Bill of Fare ... second course."--British Museum catalogue, description of a variant state with different title
Description: Title etched below image.
Printmaker and date of publication from Grego.
Variant state, with different title, of a plate issued with the title: Fierce as staring Ajax from his seat, uprose with visage stern the king of meat. Cf. No. 7187 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
Temporary local subject terms: Literary quotation -- Peter Pindar's The Lousiad.
Provenance: Suckling ; July 1957.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 20 x 24.3 cm, on sheet 21 x 25 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1787
Etchings England London 1787
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Pindar, Peter, 1738-1819.
Subject (Topic): Cooks
Servants
Poultry
Dogs
Subjects: Pindar, Peter, 1738-1819
Cooks
Servants
Poultry
Dogs
England > 1787
England > London > 1787

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