A lecture on heads [graphic]

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Title: A lecture on heads [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
Clements C. Fry Collection of Medical Prints and Drawings (Medical Historical Library, Yale University)
Published / Created: Apr. 1808.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Abstract: "Lee Lewes stands on stage at Covent Garden, with busts arranged on a table behind him, he holds one up, turning to the crowd; the audience in the pit in the foreground, with four tiers of boxes behind; after Woodward."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title engraved below image.
Frontispiece to: A lecture on heads / by Geo. Alex. Stevens ; with additions, as delivered by Mr. Charles Lee Lewes ; ... embellished with twenty-five humourous characteristic prints, from drawings by G.M. Woodward, Esq. London : Printed for Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe ..., 1808.
Provenance: Bequest of Clements C. Fry; 1955.
Extent: 1 print : 19.5 x 25 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Frontispieces
Book illustrations
Satires (Visual works) England 1808
Etchings England London 1808
Material: etching ; and hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain.
Subject (Name): Stevens, George Alexander, 1710-1784.
Lewes, Charles Lee, 1740-1803
Covent Garden Theatre,
Subject (Topic): Theaters
Actors
British
Interiors
Audiences
Public speaking
Subjects: Stevens, George Alexander, 1710-1784
Lewes, Charles Lee, 1740-1803 > Caricatures and cartoons
Covent Garden Theatre
Theaters > Great Britain
Actors > British
Interiors
Audiences
Public speaking
England > 1808
England > London > 1808

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