The devil's darning needle [graphic]

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Title: The devil's darning needle [graphic]
Creator: Newton, Richard, 1777-1798, printmaker
Contributor: Holland, William, active 1782-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: July 2, 179[5]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
Abstract: A grossly elongated figure is caricatured as a devil's darning needle presumably making humorous reference to both the dragonfly and the evil of the unidentified subject
Description: Title from caption below image.
Artist statement and date etched over fainter impression of earlier state; imprint is lightly etched or partially burnished from plate.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. vi.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 29.7 x 15 cm, on sheet 37 x 22 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1795
Aquatints England London 1795
Etchings England London 1795
Material: etching & aquatint ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1795
England > London > 1795

Access: Public
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