Monsieur Tonson [graphic]

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Title: Monsieur Tonson [graphic]
Creator: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Contributor: Taylor, John, 1757-1832.
Laurie & Whittle, publisher.
Published / Created: [22 December 1795]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published 22nd Decr. 1795 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Description: Title from item.
Printmaker identified from original drawing in the Huntington Library.
From the series of Drolls?
Twenty-eight stanzas of verse in three columns below title: There liv'd, as fame reports, in days of yore, ...
Numbered '42' in lower right of plate.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Dandies -- Frenchmen -- Watchmen -- Lighting: watchman's lantern -- Watchman's booth -- Pranks.
Provenance: The Print Room, 2 June 1994;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 18.8 x 24.8 cm, on sheet 42 x 26 cm
Language: English

Access: Public
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