Peter Trap the bird catcher and Margery Pippin the apple women [sic] [graphic].

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Title: Peter Trap the bird catcher and Margery Pippin the apple women [sic] [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 September. One of a series of etchings representing the months of the year. Only the image for January has the series title "Lilliputian figures".
Six lines of verse below title: With many snares and many a wile, I larks and woodcocks can beguile ...
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.
Suggested restrike date in an unverified card catalog record: ca. 1810.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, v.1, p.83 ; May 1954 ;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 25.7 x 14.9 cm, on sheet 31 x 19 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1740
Etchings England London 1740
Material: etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Dwarfs (Persons)
Human curiosities
Subjects: Dwarfs (Persons)
Human curiosities
England > 1740
England > London > 1740

Access: Public
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