Why, Jack, you look like an old cuckold in that hat! Where did you get it? Please, sir, its one of your old un's as Misses gave me!! [graphic]

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Lewis Walpole Library > Why, Jack, you look like an old cuckold in that hat! Where did you get it? Please, sir, its one of your old un's as Misses gave me!! [graphic]


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Title
Why, Jack, you look like an old cuckold in that hat! Where did you get it? Please, sir, its one of your old un's as Misses gave me!! [graphic]
Contributor
Kohler, W., printer.
Soffe, W., active 1828-1843, publisher.
Published / Created
[between 1838 and 1840?]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
Published by W. Soffe, 380 Strand and Printed by W. Kohler, 22 Denmark St., Soho
Abstract

A well dressed man, holding a walking stick up to his mouth, converses with another man who is holding a hoe; the latter tips his hat and winks at the former

Description
Title from lines of dialogue below image.
Approximate date of publication based on street address of printer W. Kohler, who is known to have listed "22 Denmark St., Soho" on prints published between 1838 and 1840 and possibly earlier. See British Museum online catalogue.
One in a series of prints published by W. Soffe: Whims and oddities.
1 print : lithograph ; sheet 31 x 23 cm.
Printed on wove paper.
Imperfect; series number erased from sheet.
Provenance
Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xxiv.
Extent
1 print : sheet 33.5 x 24.5 cm.
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
840.00.00.55

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Satires (Visual works) England 1838
Lithographs England London 1838
Material
lithograph ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Topic)
Staffs (Sticks)
Hoes
Hats
Winking
Subjects
Staffs (Sticks)
Hoes
Hats
Winking
England > 1838
England > London > 1838
Maidment, Brian > Donor

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
9884102
Object ID (OID)
10971615

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