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The Busy Body

Maker

(artist)
active 1766-1809 (Life dates)

(engraver)
act. 1771 - 1795 (Life dates)

John Bell, Bell's British Theatre (publisher)

Title

The Busy Body

Date of Production

20.1.1777

Medium

engraving

Dimensions

Width: 10.4 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.5438

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: recto: upper margin: Act 1st. / THE BUSY BODY / Scene.

Inscription: recto: lower left, artist: J. Roberts del.

Inscription: recto: lower centre, date, publisher: Published for Bell's British Theatre. Jany. 20th 1777.

Inscription: recto: lower right, engraver: Thornthwaite Sculpt.

Inscription: recto: lower centre, description: Mr. KING in the Character of MARPLOT. / There he goes.

recto: typewritten, lower centre, partially struck through: J ROBERTS the Elder.

Inscription: recto: handwritten in black ink, centre: James / the Younger.

Inscription: recto: handwritten in black ink: Engraving from / Bell's British / Theatre / Lit. Apoll, Aug. 1925 p89.

Stamp: recto: stamped in black, upper right: WITT / LIBRARY.

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