print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1878,0713.4406
- Title
- Object: A Mountebank
- Description
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The quack doctor Hans Buling advertising his wares, holding a vial of 'Elixir Vitae', with a monkey sitting beside him to left beside a book open at a page lettered 'Hans Buling', a Merry Andrew kneeling to right beside a chest, holding up a gourd, with townsfolk and gabled houses behind to left; illustration to Thyer's edition of Samuel Butler's 'Poetical Remains' (1819); after Brooke.
Wood-engraving
- Production date
- 1819
- Dimensions
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Height: 54 millimetres (image)
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Height: 242 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 73 millimetres (image)
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Width: 147 millimetres (sheet)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The composition is derived from the satire by Marcellus Laroon II (see the broadside listed as BM Satires no. 1032).
One of 9 plates illustrating Butler's 'Remains' (see 1878,0713.4398 to 4407). The date of the edition is unclear. The titlepage has the date 1819; but the British Library only has an edition of 1827.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The Genuine Poetical Remains of Samuel Butler. With notes by Robert Thyer ...
- Acquisition date
- 1878
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1878,0713.4406
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1891,1116.179