Stinking lobsters [graphic] / Giles Grinagain in. et fect.
- Creator:
- Grinagain, Giles, printmaker, artist.
- Published/Created:
- 1801
- Copyright Date:
- [1 December 1801]
- Physical Description:
- 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 20.5 x 24 cm, on sheet 24.3 x 31 cm
- Notes:
- Title etched below image.
Giles Grinagain is possibly a pseudonym of Samuel Howitt. See British Museum online catalogue.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires. - Abstract:
- A social satire: a woman in a apron and with a kerchief on her head is seated at a low table with a basket of lobsters; she holds out one lobster that is pulling a man's nose, as she says "There d-n your Eyes, who stinks now?" He winces in pain and pushes back against her arm as he replies, "Begar he bite! Oh!!!"
- Topics:
- Fishmongers.
Lobsters.
Pain.
Street vendors. - Topics:
- Howitt, Samuel, 1765?-1822, publisher. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88654729
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Etchings--England--London--1801.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1801. - Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- Rights:
- These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html
- Call Number:
- 801.12.01.10
- Orbis Record:
- 13353416
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr36238
- OID:
- 16698382
- PID:
- digcoll:4674023
