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.
Leaf 12 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton.
Provenance: Sold at Dominic Winter Auctions, 9 October 2020, lot 502, purchased through Jarndyce; October 2020.
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