The tea-table tabby Tom's tragic tale being a companion to that exellent song of "The wig, the hat, and the cane". [graphic]

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Title: The tea-table tabby Tom's tragic tale being a companion to that exellent song of "The wig, the hat, and the cane". [graphic]
Creator: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Contributor: Laurie & Whittle, publisher.
Published / Created: [1804]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Laurie & Whittle
Abstract: "Heading to a song printed in four columns. An old maid's tea-table overturns, owing to a quarrel between her two cats and the dog of her visitor (left), an elderly hunchback. Tea-urn, tea-pot, &c, fall to the ground, scalding the guest. Below the title: 'Being a Companion to that excellent Song of "The Wig, the Hat, and the Cane." To the tune of "Away with these Queer Married Fellows", in the "Gay Deceivers"; by Mr Bannister'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from broadside printed on same sheet.
Printmaker and imprint data from British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
One line of text and four columns of verse following title in letterpress.
Temporary local subject terms: Teapot -- Tea Urn -- Reference to "Gay Deceivers" -- Pictures amplify subject.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. x.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 23.7 x 27.5 cm
Language: English

Genre: Broadside poems
Satires (Visual works) England 1804
Etchings England 1804
Material: etching, roulette, and stipple ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Cats
Couples
Dogs
Subjects: Cats
Couples
Dogs
England > 1804

Access: Public
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