Why a gardener is the most extraordinary man in the world [graphic].

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Title: Why a gardener is the most extraordinary man in the world [graphic].
Contributor: Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794, publisher.
Published / Created: [ca. 1797]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for Robert Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street
Description: Title etched below image.
Reissue, without plate numbering and with new imprint statement, of a print published by Darly on 1 December 1773. For the earlier state, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 724 776D.
Date of publication based on publisher's street address.
Ten lines of text explaining the title below it: Because no man has more business upon Earth, and he always chuses good Grounds for what he does. He commands his Thyme; he his [sic] master or the Mint ...
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Gardeners -- Baskets -- Tools: rake -- Tools: spade.
Watermark: Russell & Co.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. ii; May 1954;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 24.6 x 17.5 cm, on sheet 26 x 19 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1773
Etchings England London 1773
Watermarks (Paper) Russell & Co.
Material: etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1773
England > London > 1773
Russell & Co.

Access: Public
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