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Jack in Office
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(artist)
1802-1873
(engraver)
1808-1880
(publisher)
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wove paper
engraving with etching
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Width: 31.7 cm
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Inscription: CHA.S G. LEWIS. SCULP.T //
Inscription: JACK IN OFFICE. //
Inscription: T.O. /
Stamp: WITT / LIBRARY //
Label: JACK IN OFFICE. / AN almost human group, dogs though they be! The saucy, well-fed "Jack / in Office" is the type of the man whom fortune has favoured looking / down with scorn on his old friends. And the others are biding their / time, one cowed, another broken-hearted, and a third scarcely stifling his / resentment. The special fitness of the comparison lends a further charm and a deeper / interest to this very pleasing picture. / "Jack" is evidently foreman to a cat-and-dog's-meat man, and must well earn his / keep by preserving the barrow from the attacks of starving mongrels during his / master's short absences. He has a thoroughly pampered and ill-tempered look. / Here the barrow is surrounded bu its usual following. A half-starved hound which / has broken loose from its kennel looks eagerly at the tempting morsel in the basket. / Next, a sort of poodle humbly raises his eyes to what is in the barrow. A third dog / seems disposed to have recourse to the "good old plan," while the little fellow in / front is licking unnoticed a skewer that has fallen to the ground. / Truly possession is nine points of the law! //
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