The Topers mistake [graphic].

Description

Title: The Topers mistake [graphic].
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist
Contributor: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Published / Created: [20 July 1801]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub'd. July 20, 1801 by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
Abstract: From the pulpit a minister wearing eyeglasses (right) reads to his small, mostly asleep congregation a sermon from a pile of papers resting on a pillow: "He brews, ten and twelve!!" A sleepy-looking man with a bulbous nose and carbuncels (foreground, left) looks up and in a speech balloon above is head: And no bad stuff either let me tell you. I should like a to take a mug
Description: Title from caption etched below image.
Printmaker and publication line from Grego.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. x.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 28.5 x 23.4 cm, on sheet 30 x 24 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1801
Etchings England London 1801
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Eyeglasses
Preaching
Religious services
Sleeping
Subjects: Eyeglasses
Preaching
Religious services
Sleeping
England > 1801
England > London > 1801

Access: Public
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