The citizens fete champetre
Published
[London?] : [publisher not identified], [ca. 1765]
etching and engraving
plate mark: 17.8 x 10.9 cm, on sheet 19 x 12 cm
Peel 2571
Notes
Title from item.
Publication date based on costume. Cf. Brooke and Laver.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publication date based on costume. Cf. Brooke and Laver.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Summary
A picnic on the grounds of an elegant house is disrupted by dogs who steal the meat as a fist-fight erupts between one of the attendants and the landowner(?).
Associated names
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints
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