Mr. Item Dunwell my lords steward and Gaffer Clodhopper a tenant [graphic].

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Title: Mr. Item Dunwell my lords steward and Gaffer Clodhopper a tenant [graphic].
Contributor: Bowles, John, 1701-1779, publisher.
Published / Created: [between 1726 and 1746]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: John Bowles
Description: Title etched within image.
Publication attributed to John Bowles and dated based on imprint from other prints in the series.
Print for July. One of a series of etchings representing the months of the year. Only the image for January has the series title "Lilliputian figures".
Six lines of verse below title: The steward by his spendthrift lord is sent, to dun poor Hopp for some arrears of rent ...
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Lilliputians.
Month designation in series erased from this impression.
Restrike date suggested in an unverified card catalog record: ca. 1810.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, v.1, p.85 ; May 1954 ;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 26.5 x 14.5 cm, on sheet 32 x 19 cm
Language: English

Access: Public
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