Hob drawn out of the well by his father & mother [graphic]

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Title: Hob drawn out of the well by his father & mother [graphic]
Creator: Du Bosc, Claude, 1684-1745?, printmaker
Contributor: Laguerre, Louis, 1663-1721, artist.
Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794, publisher.
Dogget, Thomas, -1721.
Published / Created: [1760?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Robert Sayer
Description: Title etched below image.
Printmaker from the first plate in the series: Hob carrying Mr. Friendley's letter to Mrs. Flora.
Publication date inferred from publisher's address.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Four columns of verse on either side of title: Wife. Oh! My poor boy, O. Hob. His looks are stark wild ...
"Plate IV"--Below title.
Fourth plate in the series: The humours of Hob at the country wake in the opera of Flora. Series title only on Plate 1.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials GR below.
Provenance: Dramatis Personae; May 1996;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 24 x 31 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1760
Engravings England London 1760
Etchings England London 1760
Watermarks (Paper) G. R.
Material: etching & engraving ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1760
England > London > 1760
G. R.

Access: Public
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