How to obtain a request [graphic]

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Title: How to obtain a request [graphic]
Creator: Grinagain, Giles, printmaker, artist
Contributor: Howitt, Samuel, 1765?-1822, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 February 1802]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published Febry. 1st, 1802, by S. Howitt, Panton Str., Haymarket
Abstract: A social satire: a beggar wearing ragged clothes and leaning on a crutch hold his hat out towards a old, well-dressed woman as he says, "My angelic young lady! Heaven preserve your ladyship's beautiful shape and countenance these thousand years! Give a halfpenny to a poor old man." Her face is caricatured, with a large pig-like nose from which long hairs protrude and with growths on her face, but she carries a parasol and is fashionably dressed and wears a feather and flower in her hair and earrings and large beaded necklace
Description: Title etched below image.
Giles Grinagain is possibly a pseudonym of Samuel Howitt. See British Museum online catalogue.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
On verso ms. notes in black ink: 'Renier' and monogram 'AR'.
Provenance: Jarndyce; November 2017.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 22.3 x 29 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1802
Etchings England London 1802
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
Subject (Topic): Beggars
Clothing & dress
Crutches
Flattery
Ugliness
Umbrellas
Subjects: Beggars
Clothing & dress > England > 1800-1810
Crutches
Flattery
Ugliness
Umbrellas
England > 1802
England > London > 1802
Renier, Anne, 1910-1988 > Ownership
Renier, Fernand Gabriel, 1905-1988 > Ownership

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