A fowl with the gravy to it [graphic].

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Title: A fowl with the gravy to it [graphic].
Contributor: Laurie & Whittle, publisher.
Published / Created: [8 August 1803]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd Augt. 8, 1803 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Abstract: A group of men dining around a table, one pouring gravy into the pocket of another
Description: Title etched below image.
Plate numbered '309' in lower left corner.
From he Laurie & Whitlle Droll's series.
Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls were executed either by Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton.
Two lines of text below title: Old man. Hey Hey; what are you doing, do you mean to pick my pocket. O no Sir, only observing you put a fowl there, I have taken the liberty to help you to a little gravy, as it would be dry eating of itself.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. XI.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 19.8 x 24.4 cm, on sheet 23 x 29 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1803
Engravings England London 1803
Etchings England London 1803
Material: etching and engraving ;
Subject (Topic): Eating & drinking
Joking
Servants
Subjects: Eating & drinking
Joking
Servants
England > 1803
England > London > 1803

Access: Public
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