I wish you may get it! [graphic]

Description

Title: I wish you may get it! [graphic]
Creator: Heath, Henry, active 1824-1850, printmaker
Contributor: Gans, S., active 1829 -1831, publisher.
Published / Created: [1829]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. 1829 by S. Gans, Southampton St.
Abstract: "A hopeful young girl wearing pattens, leaning confidently on the counter of a general shop, saying 'If you please Mr Tomkins to give my mother change for sixpence, and she will send you the sixpence next week.', the shop owner leaning down to her with a perplexed expression, his glasses on top of his head, a sign on the counter advertising 'Hunts match[...]'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
With: What a treat!
1 print : etching ; sheet 24.6 x 17.8 cm.
Printed on wove paper; hand-colored.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of companion print "What a treat!" from left side of plate.
Carboard backing.
Provenance: Brian Maidment; July 2024.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 25.2 x 36.1 cm, on sheet 27 x 39 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English