[Title page to] Paris and Dover, or To and fro [graphic] : a picturesque excursion being a bird's-eye notion of a few "Men and things" by Roger Book'em / [crow-quill symbol] A. Crow.

Published/Created:

[England?
s.n
1820?]

Physical Description:

1 print on wove paper : etching, hand-colred ; plate mark 15.5 x 11.1 cm, on sheet 16 x 13 cm.

Notes:

Title from text incorporated into image.
Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record.
'Alfred Crowquill' and the crow-quill symbol are pseudonyms used by Alfred Henry Forrester and his brother Charles Robert Forrester.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Secondary sheet attached to print with title: Paris and Dover, or, To and fro ...
Leverhulme-Auchincloss. vol. xvii.
Secondary sheet 10 x 14 cm.

Abstract:

Title page with an image of an artist riding on the back of a crow, paint brush in hand, with a sign hanging from his neck. The sign is decorated with a painter's palate and is inscribed: Nous prions fous les oiseaux grands et petits de laisser librement passer Roger Bookem allant de Douvres à Paris.

Topics:

Book'em, Roger
Crowquill, Alfred

Language:

French

Genre:

Etchings -- England -- London -- 1820
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1820

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

820.00.00.44

Orbis Record:

9312759

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr12139

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10968951

PID:

digcoll:974681