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The Christmas pudding, or, Grand-papa's darling
Title
The Christmas pudding, or, Grand-papa's darling [graphic] / Woodward delin.
Publication
[London] : Pubd. Januy. 20th, 1796 by S.W. Fores, N. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street, [20 January 1796]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; round design 18 cm. in diameter, plate mark 29.6 x 19.7 cm, on sheet 33 x 22 cm
Medium
wove paper
Local Notes
Temporary local subject terms: Male dress: child's dress, 1796 -- Christmas food -- Furnishings: window curtains -- Furniture: tea table -- Domestic service: footmen.
Notes
Title from item.
Six lines of text below title: That boy, my good friend, is a prodigy ...
Publisher's advertisement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening. Prints & drawings lent out on plan of a circulating library.
Summary
"Design in a circle. Two elderly men watch a small boy seated at a small round table, devouring a plum-pudding, with a countrified footman standing sourly behind his chair, hand in pocket. The admiring grandfather points to the child, turning to his friend: 'That Boy my good friend is a prodigy of human understanding, he is up every morning exploring the works of Nature* he will make his way through the world depend upon it - As to making his way through the world Neighbour I am no great judge but I think he seems to be in a fair road to make his way through the Pudding. *Hunting of Butterflies.' See BMSat 9810 a, p. 496."--British Museum online catalogue.
Variant and related titles
Grand-papa's darling
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 12, 2007
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 9810
Subjects
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1796.
Etchings - England - London - 1796.
Booksellers' stamps (Provenance) - S. W. Fores.
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