Ringing the changes, or, Quizzing my uncle [graphic].

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Title: Ringing the changes, or, Quizzing my uncle [graphic].
Alternative Title: Quizzing my uncle
Creator: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Contributor: Laurie & Whittle, publisher.
Published / Created: [20 March 1798]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published 20th March 1798 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Description: Title from item.
Printmaker identified from the original drawing in the Huntington Library.
From Laurie and Whittle series of drolls.
Four lines of text below title: Old gentleman (reading) Last Monday a society of college youths rang a peal of 4000, 500 changes in the space of two hours and twenty minutes ...
Plate numbered '213' in lower left corner.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Newspapers: Courier -- Glass: wine bottles -- Eyeglasses -- Reference to gambling.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. vii.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 20.1 x 24.8 cm, on sheet 24 x 29 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1798
Etchings England London 1798
Engravings England London 1798
Material: etching & engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
Subject (Topic): Clothing & dress
Subjects: Clothing & dress > England > 1790-1800
England > 1798
England > London > 1798

Access: Public
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