Caleb Quotem [graphic].

Description

Title: Caleb Quotem [graphic].
Contributor: Laurie & Whittle, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 May 1806]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd May 1, 1806 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Abstract: An illustrated and engraved song: Caleb Quotem, the Parish Clerk, stands as if addressing the audience; he wears neat, old-fashioned dress, with flowered waistcoat. The scene is a village schoolroom, a day school. A little boy sits on a stool; a little boy and girl sit together on a form. The room is bare, with a table and a high shelf on which is a saucepan. A church can be seen through a window
Description: Title from caption etched below image, above three columns of verse.
One line of text above design: Sung by Mr. Fawcett, in the popular farce of the review, or the Wags of Windsor.
Plate is numbered '420' in the lower left corner.
From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls.
Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton.
Three columns of verse below title: I'm parish clerk and sexton here, my name is Caleb Quotem ...
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xii.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 19.4 x 25.5 cm, on sheet 23 x 29 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1806
Stipple engravings England London 1806
Etchings England London 1806
Material: etching, engraving & stipple engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Classrooms
Ecucation
School children
Teachers
Subjects: Classrooms
Ecucation
School children
Teachers
England > 1806
England > London > 1806

Access: Public
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