Distillers looking into their own business [graphic]

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Title: Distillers looking into their own business [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
Published / Created: [10 October 1811?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Thos. Tegg
Abstract: "Three old men with grotesque and hideously carbuncled faces look into a cask of 'Double Rectified Spirits', streaming copiously from nose and mouth. Their heads and shoulders almost fill the design. On the left is a still with a pipe leading into the cask."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from caption below image.
Imprint from British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
"Price one shililng coloured."
Variant without publication date of no. 11813 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9.
Plate numbered "100" in upper right corner.
Temporary local subject terms: Cask -- Still -- Carbunkles.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xii, p. 51.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 24.1 x 35 cm, on sheet 25 x 36 cm
Language: English

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