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Distillers looking into their own business
Title
Distillers looking into their own business [graphic] / Rowlandson del.
Publication
[London] : Thos. Tegg, [10 October 1811?]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; plate mark 24.1 x 35 cm, on sheet 25 x 36 cm
Medium
wove paper
Local Notes
Temporary local subject terms: Cask -- Still -- Carbunkles.
Notes
Title from caption below image.
Imprint from British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
"Price one shililng coloured."
Variant without publication date of no. 11813 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9.
Plate numbered "100" in upper right corner.
Summary
"Three old men with grotesque and hideously carbuncled faces look into a cask of 'Double Rectified Spirits', streaming copiously from nose and mouth. Their heads and shoulders almost fill the design. On the left is a still with a pipe leading into the cask."--British Museum online catalogue.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 08, 2010
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1811.
Etchings - England - London - 1811.
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