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I'll tell you what! ; That "such things are" we must allow, but such things never were till now / H. Wigstead, delt.

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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).
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.
Classification
Department
Century prints