print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1935,0522.8.5
- Title
- Object: Glow-worm
- Description
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A companion pl. to BMSat 10204, with the same signatures and imprint. A fat and jovial toper sits leaning against a huge cask; other casks are behind him. In his right. hand is a frothing jug, in his left. a glowing pipe. He wears a hat but has taken off his coat and unbuttoned his waistcoat; his shirt is open, his stockings ungartered, his shoes unlatched. A shallow tub serves as a foot-stool. 1 April 1803
Hand-coloured etching and stipple
- Production date
- 1803
- Dimensions
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Height: 319 millimetres (cropped)
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Width: 200 millimetres (cropped)
- $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)
'Caricatures', viii, 5.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1935
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1935,0522.8.5