The advantage of a wooden leg Living on wooden legs ; The advantage of putting the best leg foremost! ; A gentlemans rest broken in consequence of going to bed with his leg on ; "Sing Old Rose & burn the bellows" ; A jury mast ; A trifling accident / [graphic]

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Lewis Walpole Library > The advantage of a wooden leg Living on wooden legs ; The advantage of putting the best leg foremost! ; A gentlemans rest broken in consequence of going to bed with his leg on ; "Sing Old Rose & burn the bellows" ; A jury mast ; A trifling accident / [graphic]

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Description

Title: The advantage of a wooden leg Living on wooden legs ; The advantage of putting the best leg foremost! ; A gentlemans rest broken in consequence of going to bed with his leg on ; "Sing Old Rose & burn the bellows" ; A jury mast ; A trifling accident / [graphic]
Creator: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
Contributor: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, artist, publisher.
Published / Created: [20 May 1828]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: George Cruikshank
Description: Title from caption below center image.
Seven designs on one plate, each individually titled; title from caption below design in the upper left.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
One of six plates of a series entitled: Scraps and sketches / by George Cruikshank. To be continued occasionally. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 11, p. 73.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xx, p. 2.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 25.4 x 35 cm
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 828.05.20.01+

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1828
Etchings England London 1828
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Accidents
Black people
Carts & wagons
Dogs
Peg legs
Stilts
Street entertainers
Subjects: Accidents
Black people
Carts & wagons
Dogs
Peg legs
Stilts
Street entertainers
England > 1828
England > London > 1828

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Identifiers

Orbis Record: 9586803
Object ID (OID): 11128762