print;
book-illustration;
satirical print
- Museum number
- Y,5.252
- Description
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Moroso; satirical vignette of a fat man sitting in chair in forest, angrily folding arms, a young man walking in the left background; proof of an illustration to 'Moroso' in Longman's edition of 'The Club' by James Puckle (1817: London).
Wood-engraving
- Production date
- 1817
- Dimensions
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Height: 47 millimetres (image)
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Width: 70 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Pasted onto an advertising prospectus for 'Puckle's Club' from c.1817 which is letterpress only (Y,5.315). See 1874,0711.711-2 for the same advertisement letterpress text but printed with illustrations.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
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Associated Title: Moroso
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Associated Title: The Club
- Acquisition date
- 1818
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Y,5.252
