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The tea-table tabby Tom's tragic tale being a companion to that exellent song of "The wig, the hat, and the cane"
Title
The tea-table tabby Tom's tragic tale [graphic] : being a companion to that exellent song of "The wig, the hat, and the cane".
Published
[London] : [Laurie & Whittle], [1804]
Physical Description
1 print : etching, roulette, and stipple ; sheet 23.7 x 27.5 cm
Medium
wove paper.
Local Notes
Temporary local subject terms: Teapot -- Tea Urn -- Reference to "Gay Deceivers" -- Pictures amplify subject.
Notes
Title from broadside printed on same sheet.
Printmaker and imprint data from British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
One line of text and four columns of verse following title in letterpress.
Summary
"Heading to a song printed in four columns. An old maid's tea-table overturns, owing to a quarrel between her two cats and the dog of her visitor (left), an elderly hunchback. Tea-urn, tea-pot, &c, fall to the ground, scalding the guest. Below the title: 'Being a Companion to that excellent Song of "The Wig, the Hat, and the Cane." To the tune of "Away with these Queer Married Fellows", in the "Gay Deceivers"; by Mr Bannister'."--British Museum online catalogue.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 27, 2008
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8, no. 10361
Genre/Form
Broadside poems.
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1804.
Etchings - England - 1804.
Also listed under
Laurie & Whittle, publisher.
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