[Title page to] Paris and Dover, or To and fro a picturesque excursion being a bird's-eye notion of a few "Men and things" by Roger Book'em / [graphic]

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Title
[Title page to] Paris and Dover, or To and fro a picturesque excursion being a bird's-eye notion of a few "Men and things" by Roger Book'em / [graphic]
Contributor
Book'em, Roger.
Crowquill, Alfred.
Published / Created
[1820?]
Publication Place
England?
Publisher
publisher not identified
Abstract

Title page with an image of an artist riding on the back of a crow, paint brush in hand, with a sign hanging from his neck. The sign is decorated with a painter's palate and is inscribed: Nous prions fous les oiseaux grands et petits de laisser librement passer Roger Bookem allant de Douvres à Paris

Description
Title from text incorporated into image.
Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record.
'Alfred Crowquill' and the crow-quill symbol are pseudonyms used by Alfred Henry Forrester and his brother Charles Robert Forrester.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Secondary sheet attached to print with title: Paris and Dover, or, To and fro ...
Secondary sheet 10 x 14 cm.
Provenance
Leverhulme-Auchincloss. vol. xvii.
Extent
1 print : plate mark 15.5 x 11.1 cm, on sheet 16 x 13 cm
Language
French

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
820.00.00.44

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Satires (Visual works) England 1820
Etchings England London 1820
Material
etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type
still image
Subjects
England > 1820
England > London > 1820

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
9312759
Object ID (OID)
10968951

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