Misers feasting on sprats, or, How to be saving [graphic].

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Title: Misers feasting on sprats, or, How to be saving [graphic].
Alternative Title: How to be saving
Contributor: Laurie & Whittle, publisher.
Published / Created: [15 August 1803]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd Augt. 15, 1803, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Description: Title from item.
From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls.
Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drollls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton.
Two lines of caption below title: These are hard times brother Gripe, and we ought to live very frugal; I like this method of eating the sprats raw they have a good flavour & it saves Fire, and a great deal of time ...
Plate numbered '310' in lower left corner.
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 20 x 24.6 cm, on sheet 23 x 29 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1803
Etchings England London 1803
Engravings England London 1803
Material: etching and engraving with stipple ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1803
England > London > 1803

Access: Public
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