The speaker [graphic]

Description

Title: The speaker [graphic]
Creator: Peake, James, 1729-approximately 1782, printmaker
Contributor: Brown, Peter, active approximately 1760-1791, artist.
Field & Tuer, publisher.
Published / Created: published according to act of Parliament, April 18, 1765 [that is, approximately 1868?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Field & Tuer
Abstract: "Satire on Quakers showing a woman and two men in a pew; the man in the centre, bare headed and in the throes of an earnest speech, clutches a handkerchief; the other man, his hat low over his eyes, rests his chin on a heavy walking stick."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title engraved below image.
Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see no. 4129 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4.
Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [approximately 1868?]
On leaf 65 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 20.2 x 24 cm, on sheet 59 x 43 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
Collection Title: Leaf 65. 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 1765
Etchings England London 1868
Engravings England London 1868
Restrikes
Material: etching and engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain.
Subject (Topic): Quakers
Pews
Public speaking
Handkerchiefs
Hats
Staffs (Sticks)
Subjects: Quakers > Great Britain
Pews
Public speaking
Handkerchiefs
Hats
Staffs (Sticks)
England > 1765
England > London > 1868

Access: Public
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