[Tabby cat playing with a mouse] [graphic]

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Title: [Tabby cat playing with a mouse] [graphic]
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Contributor: Miller, William, 1769-1844, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 January 1804]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd Jany. 1st, 1804, by W. Miller, Old Bond Street
Abstract: "A tabby cat playing with a mouse, crouched with one paw raised as the mouse leaps in front of it."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title devised by cataloger.
Frontispiece to an 1804 edition of: Collier, Jane. An essay on the art of ingeniously tormenting ...
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted on leaf 38 of volume 12 of 12.
Provenance: From a collection in twelve volumes probably compiled by Francis Harvey and sold at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 8.9 x 15 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Frontispieces
Book illustrations
Etchings England London 1804
Material: etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > London > 1804
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

Access: Public
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