Sir Timothy Carefull and Dicky Digwell [the] gardener [graphic].

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Title: Sir Timothy Carefull and Dicky Digwell [the] gardener [graphic].
Contributor: Bowles, John, 1701-1779, publisher.
Published / Created: [between 1726 and 1746]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: John Bowles
Description: Title etched within image.
Publication attributed to John Bowles and dated based on imprint from other prints in the series.
Print for March. One of a series of etchings representing the months; only the image for January has the series title "Lilliputian figures".
Six lines of verse below title: So often Dick you take a pot, That half your business is forgot ...
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Lilliputians.
Month designation in series erased from this impression.
Restrike date suggested in an unverified card catalog record: ca. 1810.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, v.1, p.88 ; May 1954 ;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 26.3 x 14.7 cm, on sheet 31 x 19 cm
Language: English

Access: Public
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