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The Frog and the Ox

Maker

(artist)
ca.1779-1862 (Life dates)

Title

The Frog and the Ox

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper

Dimensions

Height: 22.4 cm
Width: 34 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.3600

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords






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Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : printed : upper left & within image : : What have we got here eh? a Fellow that has stolen / some Dollars and made a Crown of them eh? and then / wants to pafs them off for Sterling, it won't go 'it won't / pafs Fellow. //

Inscription: inscription : printed : upper left & within image below first inscription : : There Brother! ther! I shall soon be as Big as you, / its a real Crown, but it is cursed heavy, my Head / begins to Ache already, I say can't we have a grand / meeting like Henry the VIIIth and Francis the 1st //

Inscription: Dang it why a looks as tho a'd burst / a'l ne'rr be zo big as one of our Oxen tho. //

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower centre & within image : : THE FROG and the OX //

Inscription: inscription : printed : within image & on crown : : POISON //

Inscription: inscription : printed : within image & on medal on crown : : [...] HISPAN [...] //

Inscription: inscription : printed : within image & on stocking : : ONI SOIT //

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