Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Looking at an ass.
Call Number
E South 12/GC021/Box 18/Normal/19th c./Artist Heath, William GA 2011.00901
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcvd66wb68b
Publisher
London : [s.n.], n.d. [1828?]
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1828
Extent
1 item ; sheet 25.6 x 36.3 cm [print]. sheet 26.7 x 38.1 cm [mount].
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
British Museum. Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires. [London]: Trustees of the British Museum, [1978]. No. 15610 (gives tentative date as 1828).
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Medium: Etchings, Hand coloring
Depiction: Caricature; includes viewer as part of the scene. Large crowd of diverse figures standing on city street, amused as they gaze out at viewer.
Signed with image of Paul Pry [male figure with cane], lower left.

Discovery Information

Subject
Caricature
Crowds—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Laughter—Caricatures and cartoons
English wit and humor, Pictorial

Physical Characteristics

File Count
2

Institutional Information

Collection
Omega Project
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/64874168-287d-431c-89f9-a9e2f7168f08/manifest