"Ah, grant a me von letel bite" [graphic].

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Title: "Ah, grant a me von letel bite" [graphic].
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
Contributor: Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, publisher.
Published / Created: 1780 December 1
Copyright Date: [1 December 1780]
Publication Place: [London]
Publisher: W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Abstract: A foppishly dressed young man, intended to represent a starving Frenchman, is begging for a "letel bite" from a boy in a butcher's apron. The boy is holding a large bone in his hands and has a slab of beef ribs sticking out of his pocket.
Description: Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Title etched below image.
Extent: 1 print : etching ; plate mark 18.7 x 14.0 cm, on sheet 20 x 16 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Etchings--England--London--1780.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1780.
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, publisher.
Subject (Topic): Butchers.
Clothing & dress--England--1780.
Dandies--French.
Meat.
National characteristics, French.
Starvation.

Access: Public
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Citation: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 5790