Aristocrat or democrat whimsically defined by waggoner Ned. [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- Aristocrat or democrat whimsically defined by waggoner Ned. [graphic]
- Contributor
- Laurie & Whittle, publisher.
- Published / Created
- [4 April 1800]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Published 4th April 1800, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
- Abstract
-
A simple drayman stands scratching his head as he stops to talk to a man who sits on a wooden crate as he drinks from a tankard outside a country inn. A pretty woman stands in the doorway (the sign for the inn just visible over her head) holding another large tankard of foaming beer in her hands; beside her a short country man smokes his pipe, his beer on the bench beside the trough. On the right in the background, unnoticed by the party at the inn, one man helps a woman climb a ladder into the back of the wagon as another in the wagon helps her climb
- Description
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Title engraved below image.
Plate numbered '242' in lower left corner.
From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls.
Six lines of verse in two columns below title: Says Thomas the porter to waggoner Ned, who gaping around stood scratching his head ...
Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires. - Provenance
- Leverhulme-Auchincloss; May 1954;
- Extent
- 1 print : plate mark 19.9 x 24.7 cm , on sheet 23 x 29 cm
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 800.04.04.01
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Genre prints
Etchings England London 1800
Engravings England London 1800
Watermarks (Paper) J Whatman - Material
- etching & engraving ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Topic)
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Carts & wagons
Coach drivers
Taverns (Inns) - Subjects
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Carts & wagons
Coach drivers
Taverns (Inns)
England > London > 1800
J Whatman
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 8252277
- Object ID (OID)
- 10953046