Four conversations in which one speaker annoys the other. Coloured etching, 1800.

  • Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.
Date:
Nov. 9th 1800
Reference:
493409i
Part of:
Pigmy revels or all alive at Lilliput
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Description

Right to left: a preacher submitting a black slave to the torture of tedium; a barber who has cut off his customer's head; a lawyer insisting that all are free; a soldier trying to impress a woman with tales of military hardship

Publication/Creation

[London] (No. 50, Piccadilly corner of Sackville St.) : S.W. Fores, Nov. 9th 1800.

Physical description

1 print : etching, with watercolour ; platemark 10.2 x 49 cm.

Lettering

And your own trumpeter ... you are justly condemned

References note

British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, no. 9636

Reference

Wellcome Collection 493409i

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