Snow balls, or, The old buck in distress [graphic].

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Title: Snow balls, or, The old buck in distress [graphic].
Alternative Title: Old buck in distress
Creator: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Contributor: Laurie & Whittle, publisher.
Published / Created: [12 May 1794]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published 12th May 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
Abstract: "Two well-dressed young women (left) stand behind a tree with snow-balls to pelt a thin and elderly man in old-fashioned dress (right) who walks in profile to the right, clenching his fist and holding up his stick. He is plastered with patches of snow. A third young woman kneels behind the others, making a snowball. Three others (right) are amused. L. & W., No. 111."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from item.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
No. 111 in Laurie & Whittle Drolls series.
Temporary local subject terms: Snow-balls -- Walking staves.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchinclos, vol. v (1794).
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 20 x 24.7 cm, on sheet 23 x 29 cm
Language: English

Access: Public
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