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Legerdemain
Title
Legerdemain [graphic] / H. Bunbury del.
Publication
[London] : [publisher not identified], [1799?]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; plate mark 15.8 x 24.8 cm, on sheet 19.1 x 27 cm
Medium
wove paper
Local Notes
Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Dental examination -- Corns -- Doctor's office, interiors.
Notes
Title etched below image.
Rowlandson attribution and questionable date from Grego.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance
From a collection in fourteen volumes compiled by Francis Harvey and dispersed at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Sold at Sotheby, London, 12 March 1919. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
From a collection in fourteen volumes compiled by Francis Harvey and dispersed at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Sold at Sotheby, London, 12 March 1919. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 22, 2016
References
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 369
Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library. Five hundred years of medicine in art, 74.8
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1799.
Etchings - England - London - 1799.
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