Credulity [graphic].

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Title: Credulity [graphic].
Contributor: Bobbin, Tim, 1708-1786, artist.
Orme, Edward, 1775-1848, publisher.
Published / Created: [4 June 1810]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. June 4, 1810, by Edwd. Orme, London
Abstract: A cross-eyed woman, her hat purched high on top of her cap, carries a basket full of wooden spoons suspended from a ribbon round her neck. Wrapped in a ragged shawl and hunched toward her left, she offers a fist full of spoons to a farmer carrying a rake who smiles at her as he reaches into his pocket. The woman clutches a hammer in her right hand
Description: Title from item.
Tim Bobbin's Human passions delineated, first published in 1773. Tim Bobbin is the pseudonym of John Collier.
Plate numbered '3' published as part of a 1810 edition of Bobbin's Human passions delineated, with an engraved dedication page, a portrait of the artist, and at least 25 individual prints depicting human passions.
Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Grosvenor Prints; July 2008;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 16.4 x 21 cm, on sheet 19.1 x 25.3 cm
Language: English

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