My ass in a band box [graphic]

Description

Title: My ass in a band box [graphic]
Alternative Title: My ass in a bandbox
Creator: Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, printmaker
Published / Created: pub. as the act directs, Feby. 7, 1792.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "A boy is seated on an ass which stands in a rectangular band-box. He is directed to the right and looks at the spectator grinning, his left hand extended as if pointing. He wears a round hat, a handkerchief knotted round his neck, ungartered stockings, shoes tied with strings, and a bludgeon under his right arm."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
For a variant (earlier?) state lacking imprint statement, see no. 7793 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 20.0 x 14.8 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English