Ld [...]***[...] stretching his limbs before Dr B- the r-l purger [graphic].

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Title: Ld [...]***[...] stretching his limbs before Dr B- the r-l purger [graphic].
Alternative Title: Peep in the garden att Hayes
Peep in the garden at Hayes
Creator: Austin, William, 1721-1820, printmaker
Published / Created: pubd. as the act directs May 1st 1773.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title from item.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Numbered '2' in upper right of plate.
Second plate in the series: Nature display'd both serious and comic in 12 designs dedicated to S. Foot Esqr. Series title appears only on the first plate.
Earlier state, with different title, of no. 5113 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Temporary local subject terms: Wheel chairs -- Crutches -- Diseases: gout -- 'Bootikins' (term coined by Horace Walpole for woollen covering of gouty limbs).
1 print on laid paper : etching, hand-colored ; sheet 28 x 35 cm.
Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark, with loss of plate number.
Title erased from this impression. Title of later state supplied below the erasure in contemporary hand: A peep in the Garden att Hays.
Provenance: Walter Schatzki ; June 1960 ;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 27.2 x 37.6 cm, on sheet 39 x 57 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1773
Etchings England London 1773
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Subjects: Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778 > Caricatures and cartoons
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1773
England > London > 1773

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