print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1872,1012.4950
- Title
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Object: A hitt at backgammon.
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Series: Tegg's Caricatures
- Description
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A man and woman, fat, elderly, and grotesque, play backgammon, the surface of a round table and the backgammon board forming the base of the design. The woman (right), a harridan, frantic with rage, leans towards the man clutching his wig. Two candlesticks are overturned, the guttering candles broken. A cat miaows at the back of his mistress's chair.
Plate numbered 46.
19 November 1810
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1810
- Dimensions
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Height: 240 millimetres
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Width: 439 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)
For a lithographic copy by G. Cruikshank, c. 1818, see vol. ix.
A copy, reversed, 'A Hit . . ., Pub by W. M Cleary 32 Nassau Street', in J.L.D.
Grego, 'Rowlandson', ii. 194.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1872
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1872,1012.4950
