Major G****n & lady landing at Southampton in Cripples Walk [graphic].

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Title: Major G****n & lady landing at Southampton in Cripples Walk [graphic].
Alternative Title: Major G****n and lady landing at Southampton in Cripples Walk
Creator: Austin, William, 1721-1820, printmaker
Published / Created: pubd. as the act directs May 1st 1773.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title from item.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Numbered '4' in upper right of plate.
Fourth plate in the series: Nature display'd both serious and comic in 12 designs dedicated to S. Foot Esqr. Series title appears only on the first plate.
Temporary local subject terms: Medical: crutches -- Diseases: gout -- Medical: hartshorn (smelling salts) -- Quacks -- Animals: dog -- Spas: Southampton -- Southampton: "Cripples Walk" -- Literature: paraphrase of Alexander Pope's Rape of the lock, canto ii,1.7.
Two lines of paraphrase from Rape of the lock by Alexander Pope added in unknown contemporary hand to the right of the large female figure in the image.
Watermark.
Provenance: Peter Murray Hill; September 1957.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 27.1 x 39.8 cm, on sheet 40 x 58 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1773
Etchings England London 1773
Annotations (Provenance)
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): St. André, Nathanael, 1680-1776
Subjects: St. André, Nathanael, 1680-1776 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1773
England > London > 1773

Access: Public
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