The aldermen Turtle and Gruel [graphic].

Copyright Date:

[1 August 1773]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 24.7 x 17.4 cm, on sheet 28 x 17.4 cm

Notes:

Title etched below image.
Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark on right and left sides.
CtY-LW
Plate numbered "V. 2" in upper left corner and "13" in upper right corner.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.

Abstract:

A short obese man is engaged in a conversation with a tall thin one. He appears uncomfortable raising his head to look at his interlocutor who stoops towards him. Both are dressed in furred aldermen's robes, tricorne hats under their arms.

Topics:

City council members.
Hats.
Robes.

Topics:

Darly, M. (Mary), publisher.

Caption:

leaf 42 bottom

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings--England--London--1773.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1773.
Watermarks (Paper)--CtY-LW

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html

Source Title:

Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.

Call Number:

Folio 724 776D

Orbis Record:

8308517

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr37107b

OID:

16737575

PID:

digcoll:4711143