<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>A marvellous story, or, The advantage of travelling [graphic].</dc:title><dc:date>[1 December 1803]</dc:date><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:description>Title etched below image.</dc:description><dc:description>From the Laurie &amp; Whittle series of Drolls.</dc:description><dc:description>Four lines of caption below title: "It was in Switzerland I recollect, during a severe Winter, that a peasant his wife &amp; four children, a cow, three goats &amp; a jack ass, subsisted four months in the heart of a large turnip"____You are very right, I was at Zurich, at the same time &amp;  there was then making a copper boiler of such magnitude that altho' 30 men were employ'd hammering in the inside, they were at such a distance, as not to hear the sound of each others hammers"____"Bless my soul, what did they want with such a large copper?____Why to boil your turnip in."</dc:description><dc:description>Plate numbered '322' in lower left corner.</dc:description><dc:description>Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>