Lor, Stiggins, how wery huncommon stout you get!! My dear feller, I've eat so much beef lately I'm ashamed to look a bullock in the face. [graphic]

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Title
Lor, Stiggins, how wery huncommon stout you get!! My dear feller, I've eat so much beef lately I'm ashamed to look a bullock in the face. [graphic]
Contributor
Kohler, W.
Soffe, W., active 1828-1843, publisher.
Published / Created
[between 1838 and 1840?]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
Published by W. Soffe, 380 Strand and Printed by W. Kohler, 22 Denmark Street, Soho
Abstract

A thin dandy chats with a rotund man who holds his belly with both hands. A restaurant under the sign "Williams's" is visible in the background on the left, through the window of which a man can be seen carving a roast

Description
Title from lines of dialogue below image.
Approximate date of publication based on street address of printer W. Kohler, who is known to have listed "22 Denmark Street, Soho" on prints published between 1838 and 1840 and possibly earlier. See British Museum online catalogue.
1 print : lithograph ; sheet 28.3 x 21 cm.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed resulting in loss of series title and number from top edge, and publisher's and printer's statements from lower edge.
Provenance
Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xxiv, p. 22.
Extent
1 print : sheet 34 x 25 cm.
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
845.00.00.23

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Satires (Visual works) England 1838
Lithographs England London 1838
Material
lithograph ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Topic)
Dandies
Obesity
Meat
Knives
Subjects
Dandies
Obesity
Meat
Knives
England > 1838
England > London > 1838
Maidment, Brian > Donor

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
9913819
Object ID (OID)
10971798

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