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The Nabob Rumbled, or A Lord Advocates Amusement

Maker

(artist)
1757-1815

(engraver)
1757-1815

E. D'Archery (publisher)

Title

The Nabob Rumbled, or A Lord Advocates Amusement

Date of Production

21.1.1783

Medium

Etching

Dimensions

Height: 20.3 cm
Width: 22.3 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.4333

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











Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: upper left, printed: Political Characters & Caracatures, of 1763. No. 1.

Inscription: Recto: upper right, printed: Pub.d Jan. 21 1783, by E. D'Archery, St. James's Street.

Inscription: Recto: lower centre margin, printed: The NABOB RUMBLED or A Lord Advocates Amusement.

Inscription: Recto: far left within image, printed: I am off - I know good manners / ROUPEES

Inscription: Recto: left within image, printed: Me and Mafsa leave England. He! He! He

Inscription: Recto: centre within image, printed: Ah! these dam'd Scotch Pills will kill poor Dad.

Inscription: Recto: right within image, printed: I weel tak them to Lochabar and wash them in the Brook.

Inscription: Recto: lower left within image, printed: Sureties / Sureties

Inscription: Recto: lower centre of mount, typed: J. GILLRAY

Inscription: Recto: top left of mount, handwritten in pencil: 932/13 (51)

Stamp: Recto: top right of mount, stamped: WITT / LIBRARY

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