A marvellous story, or, The advantage of travelling [graphic].

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Title: A marvellous story, or, The advantage of travelling [graphic].
Alternative Title: Advantage of travelling
Contributor: Laurie & Whittle, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 December 1803]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd Decr. 1, 1803, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Description: Title etched below image.
From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls.
Four lines of caption below title: "It was in Switzerland I recollect, during a severe Winter, that a peasant his wife & four children, a cow, three goats & a jack ass, subsisted four months in the heart of a large turnip"____You are very right, I was at Zurich, at the same time & there was then making a copper boiler of such magnitude that altho' 30 men were employ'd hammering in the inside, they were at such a distance, as not to hear the sound of each others hammers"____"Bless my soul, what did they want with such a large copper?____Why to boil your turnip in."
Plate numbered '322' 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 19.8 x 25.1 cm, on sheet 23 x 29 cm
Language: English

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