Why a gardener is the most extraordinary man in the world [graphic].
- Creator:
- Troilo, Paolo, 1972- artist.
- Copyright Date:
- [1 December 1773]
- Physical Description:
- 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 24.8 x 17.6 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm
- Notes:
- Title etched below image.
Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram.
Ten lines of text below title: Because no man has more business upon Earth, and he always chuses good grounds for what he does. He commands his thyme, he his master of the mint ...
Plate numbered "V. 2" in upper left corner and "24" in upper right corner.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Gardeners -- Tools: Spade -- Conundrums. - Abstract:
- A young gardener, fashionably dressed, stands holding a spade in his right hand and a rake in his left. A basket sits on the ground in front of him.
- Topics:
- Baskets.
Dandies--British.
Rakes (Agricultural equipment)
Shovels.
Young adults. - Topics:
- Darly, M. (Mary), publisher.
- Caption:
- leaf 45 left
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Etchings--England--London--1773.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1773. - 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:
- 13899303
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr37110a
- OID:
- 16737580
- PID:
- digcoll:4711165
