Piety in pattens, or, Timbertoe on tiptoe [graphic].

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Title: Piety in pattens, or, Timbertoe on tiptoe [graphic].
Alternative Title: Timbertoe on tiptoe
Contributor: Darly, M. publisher.
Published / Created: [12 March 1773]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub accord. to act, March 12, 1773, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Abstract: A short stout young man with a wooden leg and bag wig, stands on his tiptoe, embracing with his hands the bosom of a tall young maid with a mop in her hand and pattens on her shoes
Description: Title from item.
Series numbers in upper left and right corner of plate, respectively: V.2 7.
Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Domestic service: maidservant -- Containers: wooden pail -- Dress: pattens -- Wooden legs -- Literature: allusion to play The Handsome Maid or Piety in Pattens.
Watermark.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. ii ; May 1954 ;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 25 x 17.6 cm, on sheet 27 x 20 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1773
Etchings England London 1773
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1773
England > London > 1773

Access: Public
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