G.W. Wardle, an ape-like figure scavenging with a rake and a lantern, followed by pigs and ducks, stumbles across a decapitated corpse. Aquatint, 1811.

Date:
[1 April 1811]
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38419i
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On Wardle see the Dictionary of National Biography. However, neither the DNB nor the British Museum catalogue explains this print

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[London] : [publisher not identified], [1 April 1811]

Physical description

1 print : aquatint, with etching ; sheet 21.4 x 33.6 cm

Lettering

The walking, committee. Extensive lettering within the print

References note

British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, London 1949, vol. 9, no. 11718

Reference

Wellcome Collection 38419i

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