The wonderful word eater, lately arrived from abroad [graphic].

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Title: The wonderful word eater, lately arrived from abroad [graphic].
Creator: Dent, William, active 1783-1793, printmaker
Contributor: Dent, William, active 1783-1793, publisher.
Published / Created: [29 December 1788]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub by W. Dent Decr 29 1788, sold by W. Moore No. 308 Oxford Street
Description: Title from item.
Possibly by Dent. See British Museum catalogue.
Nine lines of text below title: Who wonderfully outdoes all the wonderous fire eaters, stone eaters, toad eaters, & c. & c. that ever exhibited, engaging to crack, scronch, swallow and digest as many of the largest and hardest words in the English language ...
Sheet trimmed to edge of plate mark on one side.
Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Demosthenes, B.C. 384?-322 -- Allusion to John Dunning Ashburton, 1st Baron, 1731-1783 -- Allusion to Ashburton: Influence of the crown, April 6, 1780 -- Parodies: Advertisements of the "Stone eater" -- Regency crisis -- Trampled Bills of Rights -- Trampled Magna Charta -- India.
Mounted to 37 x 22 cm.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch Collection; Dec. 1966;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 24.9 x 14.3 cm, on sheet 26 x 16 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1788
Etchings England London 1788
Material: etching with stipple ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Subjects: Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1788
England > London > 1788

Access: Public
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