Gradual abolition, or, Water gruel and patience a cheap and wholesome succedaneum for nerve weakening tea and slave-wrought sugar recommended to the British fair by Scotch oeconomy. [graphic]

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Title: Gradual abolition, or, Water gruel and patience a cheap and wholesome succedaneum for nerve weakening tea and slave-wrought sugar recommended to the British fair by Scotch oeconomy. [graphic]
Alternative Title: Water gruel and patience
Contributor: Dent, William, active 1783-1793, publisher.
Published / Created: April 23d, 1792.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. by W. Dent
Description: Title etched below image.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to the abolition of the slave trade -- Loss of trade -- Boycotts: sugar -- Food substitutes: salt for sugar -- Food: water-gruel -- Dishes -- Utensils: salt shovels -- Dialects: Scottish dialect -- Female fashion: court feathers as headdress -- Antisaccharites -- Eating -- Swearing.
Watermark.
Provenance: Western Hemisphere (Rubin); July 1977;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 24.7 x 34.9 cm, on sheet 27 x 41 cm
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 792.04.23.01+

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1792
Drypoints England London 1792
Etchings England London 1792
Material: etching and drypoint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818
Charlotte, Queen, Consort of Frederick I, King of Württemberg, 1766-1828
Augusta Sophia, Princess, daughter of George III, King of Great Britain, 1768-1840
Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811
Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806
Subject (Topic): Eating & drinking
Subjects: Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818 > Caricatures and cartoons
Charlotte, Queen, Consort of Frederick I, King of Württemberg, 1766-1828 > Caricatures and cartoons
Augusta Sophia, Princess, daughter of George III, King of Great Britain, 1768-1840 > Caricatures and cartoons
Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811 > Caricatures and cartoons
Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Eating & drinking
England > 1792
England > London > 1792

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Identifiers

Orbis Record: 7815893
Object ID (OID): 10732766