print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1861,0518.1074
- Title
- Object: The country club, written by C.Dibdin, Esq.
- Description
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Heading to a printed song. Seven men smoke and drink at a round table; their chairman, a parson, is in a raised chair, full face, a hammer in his hand. A man enters (l.) with a punch-bowl. The room is lit by two candles with reflectors on the wall, flanking the framed 'Rules of the Club'. One man pours liquor into his unconscious neighbour's pocket (for which there was a fine of twopence). 3 June 1805
Etching and letterpress
- Production date
- 1805
- Dimensions
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Height: 163 millimetres (platemark)
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Width: 248 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VIII, 1947)
The song is from T. Dibdin's entertainment 'The Sphinx', performed 1797-8. Words in 'The Professional Life of Mr. Dibdin', 1803, iv. 95-8. Cf. BMSats 7452, 8205, 8220.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1861
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1861,0518.1074
