The jack daws [graphic].

Description

Title: The jack daws [graphic].
Contributor: Laurie & Whittle, publisher.
Published / Created: [24 April 1804]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd April 24, 1804, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Abstract: "A bird with human face squats on the back of a cow crowing at another fallen bird."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched above image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
From the series of Laurie & Whittle Drolls.
Plate numbered '344' in the upper left corner.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Mounted to 26 x 32 cm.
Three columns of contemporary ms. on mount. Presumably a copy of the verse that normally accompanies a Laurie & Whittle Droll.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xi.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 177 x 248 mm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1804
Etchings England London 1804
Engravings England London 1804
Annotations (Provenance) 19th century
Material: etching and engraving with stipple ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Birds
Cows
Subjects: Birds
Cows
England > 1804
England > London > 1804
19th century

Access: Public
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