The rabbits [graphic].

Description

Title: The rabbits [graphic].
Creator: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Contributor: Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794, publisher.
Published / Created: [8 October 1792]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd Octr. 8th 1792 by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
Abstract: "A black saleman selling rabbits kneels on the pavement with his basket, looking up at a young woman who stands at the door of a house; she holds up one of the rabbits by a hind-leg. A manservant holding a dish stands behind her, grinning. Behind is the corner of a street."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title engraved below image.
Printmaker identified based on original drawing in the Huntington Library collection.
Two lines of text below title: 'Miss - O la how it smells - sure its not fresh, Mungo - Be gar Misse dot no fair - If Blacke Man take you by Leg so - ; you smell too.'
From Drolls.
Watermark (partial): Strasburg bend.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. v.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 25 x 20.1 cm, on sheet 30 x 24 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1792
Engravings England London 1792
Etchings England London 1792
Material: etching and engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Black people
City & town life
Rabbits
Servants
Street vendors
Women
Subjects: Black people
City & town life
Rabbits
Servants
Street vendors
Women
England > 1792
England > London > 1792

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