The aldermen Turtle and Gruel [graphic].

Description

Title: The aldermen Turtle and Gruel [graphic].
Contributor: Darly, M. publisher.
Published / Created: [1 August 1773]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publ. accordg. to act Augt. 11th, 1773, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Abstract: A short obese man is engaged in a conversation with a tall thin one. He appears uncomfortable raising his head to look at his interlocutor who stoops towards him. Both are dressed in furred aldermen's robes, tricorne hats under their arms
Description: Title etched below image.
Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark on right and left sides.
Plate numbered "V. 2" in upper left corner and "13" in upper right corner.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Second of two plates on leaf 42.
1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 24.8 x 17.6 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
Provenance: P. Murray Hill; August 1945;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 24.7 x 17.4 cm, on sheet 28 x 17.4 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 724 776D
Collection Title: Leaf 42. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Collection Date: [London] : Pubd. by Mary Darly, Jany. 1, 1776.

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1773
Etchings England London 1773
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): City council members
Robes
Hats
Subjects: City council members
Robes
Hats
England > 1773
England > London > 1773

Access: Public
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