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- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1868?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 62. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait of Jack Fletcher, nearly whole length, seated to front in the kitchen of the Revd Henry Frinsham, looking towards the viewer, smoking a pipe, holding a mug in his right hand, leaning on a table on which lies a bottle, wearing hat, 'Foul-Weather Coat' of Berkshire, shirt and breeches."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched above image., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Y,5.78., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Plate originally published ca. 1735-1740; see British Museum online catalogue., Twenty-three lines of biographical information etched below image: Jack Fletcher was perhaps as extraordinary a being as ever nature formed ..., Cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 2, page 226., and On leaf 62 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
- Publisher:
- Field & Tuer
- Subject (Name):
- Fletcher, Jack, active 1735,
- Subject (Topic):
- Pipes (Smoking), Drinking vessels, Hats, and Coats
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Jack Fletcher the famous Wargrove fool sitting in the kitchen of the Revd. Henry Frinsham : the original now in the possession of his grandaughter Mrs. George Berkeley / [graphic]
