Body fanner, nut-cracker & wine helper, for the heats of summer [graphic].

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Title: Body fanner, nut-cracker & wine helper, for the heats of summer [graphic].
Alternative Title: Body fanner, nut-cracker and wine helper, for the heats of summer
Creator: Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836, printmaker
Contributor: Netherclift, Joseph, 1792-1863, printer.
McLean, T. publisher.
Published / Created: Jan. 1, 1830.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket and Printed by J. Netherclift
Abstract: A stout man reclines on a chaise-longue, a bolster pillow supporting his knees as a small cup meets his lips. Above this, a small tube descends from a bowl labeled 'Barcelonie'. On the wall are two wheels and the mechanism that pours and decants the wine and cracks the nuts
Description: Title from text below image.
Series title etched above image.
Later edition attributes these plates to Robert Seymour: Living made easy : dedicated to the Utilitarian Society : twelve humorous subjects / designed by R. Seymour. New-York : Published by E.S. Mesier, 28 Wall Street, 1832.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1829.
Provenance: Grosvenor Prints; November 2020.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 26.7 x 38.0 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English