print; satirical print

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Object Type: print; satirical print
Museum number: 1948,0214.346
Title: Object: An Hobgoblin. Od rabbit it, it's waundidly like Farmer Gubbins!
Description: Satire with a rustic holding a lantern terrified by a white apparition sitting on a stone behind him. 1 October 1792 Hand-coloured etching with aquatint
Producer name: Print made by: Richard Newton; After: George Moutard Woodward; Published by: William Holland
School/style: British
Production date: 1792
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials: paper
Technique: etching; aquatint; hand-coloured
Dimensions: Height: 348 millimetres; Width: 233 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: One from a set of five, Alexander 65 to 69.
Bibliographic references: Alexander 1998 / Richard Newton and English caricature in the 1790s (67); BM Satires / Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (undescribed)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: satire; fairy
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Francis D Klingender
Acquisition date: 1948
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1948,0214.346

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