print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1882,0311.5341
- Description
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A Turkish dignitary, having kicked a dog, walking away to right, a black servant holding a parasol above his head, glancing back at a beggar, preparing to hit his master with a stick; border of thin and thick double line; illustration to 'Tread on a Worm and it will turn' in John Trusler's 'Proverbs Exemplified' (London: 1790); proof.
Wood-engraving
- Production date
- 1790 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 64 millimetres (image)
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Width: 54 millimetres (image)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- From a volume bound in red tooled leather with gold decorative border, lettered on the spine with 'Woodcuts. / Vol.II / By Bewick.' and on the inside with 'T. W. Waters Binder.'
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Proverbs Exemplified
- Acquisition date
- 1882
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1882,0311.5341
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1983,U.2478
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Miscellaneous number: I.B. 315