"Ah, grant a me von letel bite" [graphic]

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Title: "Ah, grant a me von letel bite" [graphic]
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Contributor: Field & Tuer, publisher.
Published / Created: [approximately 1868?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publishd. Decr. 1st, 1780, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand [i.e. Field & Tuer]
Abstract: A foppishly dressed young man, intended to represent a starving Frenchman, is begging for a "letel bite" from a boy in a butcher's apron. The boy is holding a large bone in his hands and has a slab of beef ribs sticking out of his pocket
Description: Title etched below image.
Restrike, with "J. Gillray fecit" added below image in lower left. For original issue of the plate, see no. 5790 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?]
On leaf 11 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Provenance: Gift of Addison Van Name to Yale University Library, 1919. Transferred from Yale University Library; November 1967.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 18.5 x 15 cm, on sheet 59 x 43 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
Collection Title: Leaf 11. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Collection / Other Creator: Tuer, Andrew White, 1838-1900, collector.
Collection Date: [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?]

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1780
Etchings England London 1868
Restrikes
Material: etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
Subject (Topic): National characteristics, French
Starvation
Butchers
Dandies
French
Meat
Clothing & dress
Subjects: National characteristics, French
Starvation
Butchers
Dandies > French
Meat
Clothing & dress > England > 1780
England > 1780
England > London > 1868

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