Will O! the Wisp, or, Some folks a little out of the road [graphic].

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Title: Will O! the Wisp, or, Some folks a little out of the road [graphic].
Alternative Title: Some folks a little out of the road
Creator: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Contributor: Laurie & Whittle, publisher.
Published / Created: [12 December 1796]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published 12th Decr. 1796 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Description: Title from item.
Printmaker identified from the original drawing in the Huntington Library.
From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls.
Eight lines of verse in two columns below title: To lead poor travellers astray ...
Plate numbered '177' in lower left corner.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Will o' the wisps -- Swamps -- Travellers -- Signposts -- Dark lanterns.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. vii.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 20.0 x 24.7 cm, on sheet 24 x 29 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1796
Etchings England London 1796
Engravings England London 1796
Material: etching & engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1796
England > London > 1796

Access: Public
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