The savage man [graphic].

Description

Title: The savage man [graphic].
Contributor: Boswell, James, 1740-1795, artist.
Published / Created: [1767]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title from item.
Publication date based on an announcement in The Public advertiser, January 30, 1767.
Publication date in Stephens: August 1766.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Temporary local subject terms: Quarrels: Hume vs. Rousseau, 1766 -- Bludgeons -- Canes: handle in shape of fox's head -- Animals: monkeys -- Physicians -- Medical instruments: clyster pipe -- Savages -- Food: dinner -- Literature: allusion to The origin of inequality by J.J. Rousseau -- Literature: Concise and genuine account of the dispute between Mr. Hume and Mr. Rousseau, by David Hume -- Peter the Wild Boy, fl. 1767.
Mounted to 31 x 45 cm.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 21 x 29 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1767
Etchings England London 1767
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Hume, David, 1711-1776
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778
Voltaire, 1694-1778
Tronchin, Théodore, 1709-1781
Subjects: Hume, David, 1711-1776 > Caricatures and cartoons
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778 > Caricatures and cartoons
Voltaire, 1694-1778 > Caricatures and cartoons
Tronchin, Théodore, 1709-1781 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1767
England > London > 1767

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