Mr. Sharp and Mr. Blunt [graphic].

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Title: Mr. Sharp and Mr. Blunt [graphic].
Contributor: Darly, M. publisher.
Published / Created: [1 July 1773]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. according to act, July 1, 1773, by MDarly, Strand
Abstract: A short, stout elder man in glasses stands in front of an armchair as he greets a tall, younger man with elongated chin and bag wig who bows to him. The visitor's greyhound is looking curiously at the host's little pug
Description: Title etched below image.
Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge.
Plate numbered "V. 2" in upper left corner and "12" in upper right corner.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Furniture: Armchair with claw feet -- Room screen -- Table -- Pictures amplifying subject: Portrait of an obese man -- Pets.
Mounted to 28 x 34 cm.
Watermark.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch Collection ; Dec. 1966 ;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 17.7 x 24.8 cm, on sheet 25 x 31 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 773.07.01.01 Impression 1
Collection Title: Leaf 40. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Collection Date: [London] : Pubd. by Mary Darly, Jany. 1, 1776.

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1773
Etchings England London 1773
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Interiors
Fireplaces
Dogs
Bowing
Subjects: Interiors
Fireplaces
Dogs
Bowing
England > 1773
England > London > 1773

Access: Public
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