Swift's advice to servants [graphic]

Description

Title: Swift's advice to servants [graphic]
Creator: Baldrey, Joshua Kirby, 1754-1828, printmaker
Contributor: North, Brownlow, 1778-1829, artist.
Baldrey, Joshua Kirby, 1754-1828, publisher.
Published / Created: [1799]
Publication Place: Cambridge
Publisher: J. Baldrey
Description: Title etched below image.
Signed by Brownlow North using an artist's device: compass pointing north.
Printmaker identified from another print by Brownlow North signed with the same device .
One line of text below title: While your master is saying grace, take the chairs from behind the company and go out.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: dining room -- Art: pictures -- Domestic service: manservants -- Table settings -- Literature: Jonathan Swift (667-1745), Direction to Servants.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. viii.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 17 x 21.8 cm, on sheet 18 x 23 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1799
Etchings England Cambridge 1799
Artists' devices
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1799
England > Cambridge > 1799

Access: Public
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