The butcher [graphic].

Description

Title: The butcher [graphic].
Published / Created: [18--?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Satire on butchers showing a calf as a butcher holding an axe and a cleaver, with a meat tray as a breastplate, a candle in his hat, and a steel hanging from his apron. In the background, the enclosure of Smithfield market (with street lamps against the fences) in which a group of men with sticks and dogs chase a runaway ox; the entrance to St Bartholomew's hospital and the distant dome of St Paul's Cathedral beyond. Enclosed in a delicate frame a sheep's fleece hanging between verses below; these allude to the butcher's manly strength and his wife's consequent faithfulness."--British Museum online catalogue, description of earlier state
Description: Title etched within image.
Originaly published ca. 1740 by George Bickham. See no. 2470 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3.
One of a series of prints representing various tradesmen made up from tools of their own trade.
Two columns of verse below image: Old Aesop who in morals did surpass, wrapt in a lion's skin, produc'd an ass ...
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, v. 1, p. 107 ; May 1954 ;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 32.4 x 19.8 cm, on sheet 35 x 22 cm
Edition: [State, with imprint removed].
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1740
Etchings England London 1740
Material: etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
London.
Subject (Name): Smithfield Market,
St. Paul's Cathedral (London, England),
Subject (Topic): Arcimboldesque figures
Butchers
Equipment
Street lights
Subjects: Smithfield Market
St. Paul's Cathedral (London, England)
Arcimboldesque figures
Butchers
Equipment
Street lights > England > London
England > 1740
England > London > 1740

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