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1. An Abyssinian breakfast [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [3 March 1791]
- Call Number:
- 791.03.03.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A man in Scottish dress kicks a bull as he cuts it with a knife crying, "Hoot! Damn yeen. Saul what de ye hoke for." Also pictured a abyssianian couple skin a lion. A sphynix with a confused look sits as a stream pours out from under his chair with a crocodile and crabs floating in the water and frogs observing from the side. Monkeys in the trees observe the scene below. A other four-legged animal emerges from the tent in the distance
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Four lines of verse on each side of title: There, which the squeamish souls of Britain shocks, ... ., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark (countermark) : V I.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. March 3, 1791, by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Egypt, Ethiopia., and Nile River.
- Subject (Name):
- Bruce, James, 1730-1794
- Subject (Topic):
- Description and travel, Antiquities, Clothing & dress, Scottish, Bulls, Crabs, Crocodiles, Frogs, Lions, Monkeys, Tents, and Tourists
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > An Abyssinian breakfast [graphic].