I vont take a farden less [graphic]

Description

Title: I vont take a farden less [graphic]
Creator: Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, printmaker
Contributor: Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, publisher.
Published / Created: [ca. 1795]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: [Robert Dighton], Charing Cross
Abstract: "An obese butcher (three-quarter length), in profile to the left, leans back from the waist, sucking a long pipe held in his right hand. His ill-fitting wig is perched on a bald head. He wears apron and oversleeves, a steel hanging from his waist."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Publisher and date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Temporary local subject terms: Trades -- Dutchmen -- Tools: butchers' steel.
Leaf 5 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton.
1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 19.8 x 14.9 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm.
Provenance: Sold at Dominic Winter Auctions, 9 October 2020, lot 502, purchased through Jarndyce; October 2020.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 20.1 x 15.1 cm, on sheet 38 x 27 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English