[Sleepy characters at Torrington] [graphic]

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Title: [Sleepy characters at Torrington] [graphic]
Creator: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Contributor: Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Allen and West, publisher.
Published / Created: Octr. 22, 1796.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. by Allen & West, 15 Paternoster Row
Abstract: "Plate 29 [but numbered 30] to 'Eccentric Excursions, or. Literary & Pictorial sketches of Countenance, Character and Country, in ..... England & South Wales'. Three elderly men, one holding a pipe, sit fast asleep, framed in an open casement window of the Globe inn. A date in a medallion, '161 - ', is above the window. Sketched at Torrington, a place 'supremely dull'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and sides.
Numbered 'Plate 29' in upper left corner.
Placement instructions 'Page 78' in upper right corner.
Plate from: Eccentric excursions, or, Literary & pictorial sketches of countenance character & country in ... England & South Wales / by G.M. Woodward, 1796.
Temporary local subject terms: Inns: 'Globe' at Torrington -- Torrington: Globe Inn -- Architectural details: windows -- Sleeping.
First digit in number in upper left altered to either '3' or '6'.
Provenance: Suckling; June 1956.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 27 x 20 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1796
Book illustrations
Etchings England London 1796
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Torrington (England)
Subjects: Torrington (England)
England > 1796
England > London > 1796

Access: Public
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