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
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England > 1793
England > London > 1793
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Catalog Record
- 12713057
- Object ID (OID)
- 11791652
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