Obediah puzzled [art original].

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Title: Obediah puzzled [art original].
Published / Created: [1830?]
Publication Place: England?
Abstract: Two Quakers conversing as if catechising, one wearing an extravagant waistcoat: 'Aminidab, how camest thou by that garment for the vain adornment of thine outward man?', '"I created it."', 'Created it friend?', '"Yea verily - for I said, "Let it be made, and it was made!!'.
Description: Title from caption inscribed at bottom of design in black ink.
Date based on published etching with this design, same title, and text: Pubd. Apl. 1830, by S. Gan's Southampton St. See British Museum online catalog. Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
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Provenance: From Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xxv.
Extent: 1 drawing : image 23.5 x 35 cm, on sheet 25 x 36 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1830
Watercolors British 19th century
Ink drawings British 19th century
Material: watercolor with pen and black ink ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain
Subject (Topic): Quakers
Subjects: Quakers > Great Britain > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1830
British > 19th century

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Citation: Obediah Puzzled. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.