What is this my son Tom [graphic].

Published/Created:
London
Published by R. Sayer & I. Bennet, No. 53 Fleet Street, as the act directs
24 June 1774
Physical Description:
1 print on laid paper : mezzotint, hand-colored ; sheet 35.1 x 24.8 cm.
Notes:
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Possibly after a drawing by Grimm. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v.4, no. 4536 for a similar print with the same title.
Two columns of verse on sides of title: Our wise forefathers would express, ev'n sensibility in dress ...
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Wigs: toupée wig -- Walking staves -- Horse whips -- Farmers -- Flowers: nosegay.
Print Shop ; November 1, 1958 ; Acquisitions no.: 958-11-1-78.
Associated Names:
Grimm, Samuel Hieronymus, 1733-1794 [Artist]
Robert Sayer and John Bennett (Firm) [Publisher]
Language:
English
Genre:
Mezzotints -- England -- London -- 1774
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1774
Format:
Image
Content Type:
Prints & Photographs
Rights:
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Call Number:
774.06.24.01+
Orbis Record:
8267155
Yale Collection:
Lewis Walpole Library
Digital Collection:
Lewis Walpole Library
Local Record Number:
lwlpr03853
Volume/Enumeration:
Digital version
OID:
10716303
PID:
digcoll:291950