I'd be a butterfly born in a coal-sack!!! [graphic].

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Title: I'd be a butterfly born in a coal-sack!!! [graphic].
Contributor: Fairburn, John, 1768 or 1769-1832, publisher.
Published / Created: [September 1828]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. Septr. 1828 by J. Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Abstract: "Satire with a coal-man singing while playing on a harp, sporting butterfly wings, admired by fellow coal-men."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description: Title etched below image.
For a later state with secondary title "March of intellect among the black-diamond carriers" etched in upper margin, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1988,1001.17.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Temporary local subject headings: Dustmen -- Coalmen.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xx, p. 11.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 24.6 x 35 cm, on sheet 26 x 37 cm
Edition: [Early state, before secondary title added above image].
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1828
Etchings England London 1828
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Butterflies
Carts & wagons
Coal
Harps
Singing
People associated with manual labor
Working class
Subjects: Butterflies
Carts & wagons
Coal
Harps
Singing
People associated with manual labor
Working class
England > 1828
England > London > 1828

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