Stinking lobsters [graphic]

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Title: Stinking lobsters [graphic]
Creator: Grinagain, Giles, printmaker, artist
Contributor: Howitt, Samuel, 1765?-1822, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 December 1801]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published Decbr. 1, 1801, by S. Howitt, Panton Street
Abstract: A social satire: a woman in a apron and with a kerchief on her head is seated at a low table with a basket of lobsters; she holds out one lobster that is pulling a man's nose, as she says "There d-n your Eyes, who stinks now?" He winces in pain and pushes back against her arm as he replies, "Begar he bite! Oh!!!"
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.
Provenance: From the Renier Collection; on verso in black ink: 'Renier' and monogram 'AR'. Jarndyce; November 2017.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 20.5 x 24 cm, on sheet 24.3 x 31 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1801
Etchings England London 1801
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Fishmongers
Lobsters
Pain
Street vendors
Subjects: Fishmongers
Lobsters
Pain
Street vendors
England > 1801
England > London > 1801
Renier, Anne, 1910-1988 > Ownership
Renier, Fernand Gabriel, 1905-1988 > Ownership

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