Why a gardener is the most extraordinary man in the world [graphic].

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Title: Why a gardener is the most extraordinary man in the world [graphic].
Contributor: Darly, M. publisher.
Published / Created: [1 December 1773]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. Decemr. 1st, 1773, by MDarly, (39) Strand, according to act
Abstract: A young gardener, fashionably dressed, stands holding a spade in his right hand and a rake in his left. A basket sits on the ground in front of him
Description: Title etched below image.
Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram.
Ten lines of text below title: Because no man has more business upon Earth, and he always chuses good grounds for what he does. He commands his thyme, he his master of the mint ...
Plate numbered "V. 2" in upper left corner and "24" in upper right corner.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Gardeners -- Tools: Spade -- Conundrums.
First of two plates on leaf 61.
Provenance: P. Murray Hill; August 1945;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 24.8 x 18 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 45 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 724 776D
Collection Title: Leaf 45. 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
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Dandies
British
Young adults
Shovels
Rakes (Agricultural equipment)
Baskets
Subjects: Dandies > British
Young adults
Shovels
Rakes (Agricultural equipment)
Baskets
England > 1773
England > London > 1773

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