print; satirical print

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Object Type: print; satirical print
Museum number: 2001,0520.42
Title: Object: An Undertaker's Visit
Description: Satire: undertaker, bearing coffin, presenting himself before rotund figure smoking pipe, sitting in chair. 26 February 1807 (?) Hand-coloured etching
Producer name: After: Richard Newton; Published by: Thomas Tegg
School/style
Production date: 1807
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique: etching; hand-coloured
Dimensions: Height: 276 millimetres; Width: 358 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: The year of publication has been scratched through, but appears to read '1807'; it cannot be earlier than 1804 when Tegg changed his address to 111 Cheapside. The plate appears to be a posthumous copy.
Bibliographic references: Alexander 1998 / Richard Newton and English caricature in the 1790s (309); 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; death; undertaker
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Previous owner
Acquisition date: 2001
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 2001,0520.42
Conservation

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