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The march of interlect, or, A dust-man & family of the 19th century

Title
The march of interlect, or, A dust-man & family of the 19th century [graphic] / Marks fect.
Publication
London : Published by J.L. Marks, 17 Artillery St., Bishopsgate, [approximately 1824]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; sheet 15.8 x 21 cm
Medium
wove paper hand-colored.
Notes
Title etched below image.
Date of publication inferred from publisher's street address. John Lewis Marks is recorded at 17 Artillery Street in 1824; see British Museum online catalogue.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1985,0119.338.
For a companion print entitled "The march of interlect, or, A sweep & family of the 19th century", see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2008,7088.1.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Summary
"Caricature with a family of a working man, his wife and daughter dressed in fashionable clothes, with a cottage and pig on a dung-hill in the background."--British Museum online catalogue.
A satire on the aspirations of the working classes. The affluently dressed dustman's wife asks her husband if he has seen the latest issue of 'La Bells Ass-emblee' (John Bell's La Belle Assemblée, or Bell's Court and Fashionable Magazine).
Variant and related titles
March of intellect, or, A dust-man & family of the 19th century
Dust-man & family of the 19th century
Dustman and family of the nineteenth century
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 05, 2022
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1824.
Etchings - England - London - 1824.
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