I'd be a butterfly born in a bower [graphic]

Description

Title: I'd be a butterfly born in a bower [graphic]
Contributor: Lisle, Joe, artist.
Berthoud & Son, publisher.
Published / Created: [1828?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published by Berthoud & Son, 65, Quadrant, London
Abstract: "Poor man on crutches cries out his song in the street during a thunderstorm."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description: Title etched below image.
Date of publication inferred from similar prints after Joe Lisle that were published by Berthoud & Son in 1828. Cf. No. 15624 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 11.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
For a later state published in 1830 by S. Gans, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1993,1107.43.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Handicapped.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xx, p. 78.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 34 x 25 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1828
Aquatints England London 1828
Etchings England London 1828
Material: aquatint and etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Disabled veterans
Cries
Crutches
Rain
Subjects: Disabled veterans
Cries
Crutches
Rain
England > 1828
England > London > 1828

Access: Public
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