I vont take a farden less [graphic]

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Title: I vont take a farden less [graphic]
Creator: Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, printmaker
Contributor: Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, publisher.
Published / Created: [ca. 1795]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: [Robert Dighton], Charing Cross
Abstract: "An obese butcher (three-quarter length), in profile to the left, leans back from the waist, sucking a long pipe held in his right hand. His ill-fitting wig is perched on a bald head. He wears apron and oversleeves, a steel hanging from his waist."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Publisher and date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Temporary local subject terms: Trades -- Dutchmen -- Tools: butchers' steel.
Provenance: Suckling.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 20.1 x 15.1 cm, on sheet 38 x 27 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures
Satires (Visual works) England 1795
Etchings England London 1795
Material: etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Butchers
Obesity
Pipes (Smoking)
Subjects: Butchers
Obesity
Pipes (Smoking)
England > 1795
England > London > 1795

Access: Public
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