A tit bit for the buggs [graphic]

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11791652

Description

Title
A tit bit for the buggs [graphic]
Alternative Title
Tit bit for the bugs
Creator
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor
Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created
May 25, 1793.
Publication Place
London
Publisher
Published by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Abstract

"A fat man in his nightshirt, yawning, with insects on his bare leg, stands beside his bed, desperately scratching."--British Museum online catalogue

Description
Title etched below image.
A companion print to: An old maid in search of a flea.
Four lines of verse etched at bottom of plate: Alas! what avails all thy scrubbings and shrugs ...
Publisher's advertisment in two parts along lower edge of image border: Prints and drawings lent out on the plan of a circul. library. Folios of caracatures lent out for the evening.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss from bottom edge of all text below title. Missing text supplied from impression in British Museum.
Mounted on leaf 53 of volume 4 of 14 volumes.
Provenance
From a collection in fourteen volumes compiled by Francis Harvey and dispersed at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Sold at Sotheby, London, 12 March 1919. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
Extent
1 print : sheet 31.8 x 23 cm
Extent of Digitization
This object has been completely digitized.
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number
Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 4

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Satires (Visual works) England 1793
Etchings England London 1793
Material
etching with stipple ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type
still image
Subjects
England > 1793
England > London > 1793
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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Access
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Rights
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Identifiers

Catalog Record
12713057
Object ID (OID)
11791652

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