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Henry Wigstead
I'll tell you what! ; That "such things are" we must allow, but such things never were till now / H. Wigstead, delt.
Published
[London] : Published by E. Jackson, No. 14, Marylebone Street, Golden Square, [between 1783 and 1788]
stipple engraving
image: 260 x 240 mm; plate mark: 287 x 251mm; sheet: 300 x 258 mm
Peel 2544
Notes
Printseller Elizabeth Jackson operated from premises at 14 Marylebone Street, Golden Square, between 1783 and 1788.
Not found in British Museum Catalogue (BMC).
Not found in British Museum Catalogue (BMC).
Inscriptions/Markings
Subject identified in pencil at foot of sheet.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Summary
Print shows playwright Elizabeth Inchbald writing "puffs" at a table with a bottle of gin and the writings of Aristotle, Rochester, and Congreve as a dog defecates on a paper marked "Pastorals" on the floor. The title refers to two of Inchbald's plays.
Associated names
Holland, William, active 1782-1817, publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints
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