Four specimens of the reading public [graphic]

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Title: Four specimens of the reading public [graphic]
Creator: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
Contributor: Crowquill, Alfred, artist.
Fairburn, John, 1768 or 1769-1832, publisher.
Published / Created: [7 August 1826]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published Augt. 7th 1826 by J. Fairburn Broadway Ludgate Hill
Abstract: "Each has a caption in the upper margin. They stand in profile to the left, except [3] who is full face. [1] Romancing Molly. A maidservant, basket on her arm, house-key in her hand. She asks: Hav'nt you no Rum-ances in 5 Wollums?--[2] Sir Larry Luscious--, spindle-shanked and elderly; he asks: Have you the last of Harritte Wilson--? [see BM Satires 14828, &c.]. [3] A burly Political Dustman--, his shirt-sleeves rolled up: I vants a Cobbett [i.e. a 'Political Register']. [4] Frank a la Mode, a heavily whiskered dandy, holding his eye-glass, asks: Pray is a Waverley's New Novel out? [cf. BM Satires 14825]. Beside him is a poodle clipped in the French manner."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from caption below image.
Text above image: Romancing Molly, Sir Larry Luscious, Political dustman, Frank à la mode.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on lower edge.
Temporary local subject terms: Dustmen -- Reading -- Female servants.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xviii, p. 119.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 25.2 x 37 cm
Language: English

Access: Public
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