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Four specimens of the reading public   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: George Cruikshank

After: Alfred Crowquill
Published by: John Fairburn
Title
Four specimens of the reading public
Description
English: Each has a caption in the upper margin. They stand in profile to the left, except [3] who is full face. [1] Romancing Molly. A maidservant, basket on her arm, house-key in her hand. She asks: Hav'nt you no Rum-ances in 5 Wollums?— [2] Sir Larry Luscious—, spindle-shanked and elderly; he asks: Have you the last of Harritte Wilson—? [see BM Satires 14828, &c.]. [3] A burly Political Dustman—, his shirt-sleeves rolled up: I vants a Cobbett [i.e. a 'Political Register']. [4] Frank a la Mode, a heavily whiskered dandy, holding his eye-glass, asks: Pray is a Waverley's New Novel out—? [cf. BM Satires 14825]. Beside him is a poodle clipped in the French manner. Aug 7 1826
Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Associated with: William Corbett
Date 1826
date QS:P571,+1826-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
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Height: 238 millimetres (cropped)

Width: 338 millimetres (cropped)
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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Accession number
1935,0522.4.113
Notes (Description from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', X, 1952)
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1935-0522-4-113
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