A hungry boy (left) holding the string of a bag over his shoulder, scratches his hair under his hat, as he looks in a window. On the otherside of the window, a grinning cook holds up a large plum pudding on a platter
Description:
Title etched above image., “No. 7”--Upper right corner above image., Three lines of text below image: Various are the ways this passion might be depicted, in this delineation the subjects chosen are simple -- a hungry boy -- and a plumb pudding., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 29.7 x 23.4 cm., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Plate number erased from sheet., and Watermark: Russell & Co 1799.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 20, 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
A hungry boy (left) holding the string of a bag over his shoulder, scratches his hair under his hat, as he looks in a window. On the otherside of the window, a grinning cook holds up a large plum pudding on a platter
Description:
Title etched above image., “No. 7”--Upper right corner above image., Three lines of text below image: Various are the ways this passion might be depicted, in this delineation the subjects chosen are simple -- a hungry boy -- and a plumb pudding., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on leaf 9 of volume 7 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 20, 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
