The damnation of Obadiah [graphic]

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Title: The damnation of Obadiah [graphic]
Creator: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist
Published / Created: [approximately 1820?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title from caption below image.
Four lines of prose below image, two on either side of title: May all the angels & archangels, principalities & powers & all the heavenly armys curse & damn him ..."
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
A later, reversed copy of no. 5214 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Temporary local subject terms: Literature: Tristram Shandy, by Laurence Sterne -- Military uniforms -- Maps: Flanders -- Male costume: Dressing gown and night cap -- Man-servant -- Male headdress: Pig-tail -- Furniture: Ladder-back chairs -- Household utensils: Brooms -- Medical: Physicians -- Dr. Slop.
1 print on wove paper : etching, hand-colored ; sheet 24 x 33.7 cm.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark and artist's signature partially erased from lower left corner.
Shading added in pencil to lower part of design.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xi, p. 35.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 23.2 x 33 cm
Language: English

Genre: Illustrations
Satires (Visual works) England 1820
Etchings England London 1820
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
Subjects: Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768 > Illustrations
England > 1820
England > London > 1820

Access: Public
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