print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1882,0311.5353
- Description
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A beggar with a stick and a dog on a lead standing to left in front of a city gate, thanking for money put into his hat by a little girl, accompanied by two boys; border of thin and thick double line; illustration to 'What can't be cured must be endured' in John Trusler's 'Proverbs Exemplified' (London: 1790); proof.
Wood-engraving
- Production date
- 1790 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 66 millimetres (image)
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Width: 54 millimetres (image)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Tattersfield notes that this proof slightly differs from the published version.
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
- 1882,0311.5353
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1983,U.2478
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Miscellaneous number: I.B. 327