Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
[Mister O'Squat: A Panorama].
Call Number
C West 22/GC138/Small GA 2005.01039
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/1v53jx72k
Date Created
1822
Extent
1 item
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Unidentified Artist [caricaturist]
Medium: Etchings, Wood (plant material), Leather, Hand coloring
Item description: Wood and leather box. Extremely fragile. Not to be turned without a curator or conservator present. Sometimes also known as a myriopticon or paper theater.
Signed with blind stamp on box: "E.P. Sutton & Company; Sangorski & Sutcliff".
A set of prints in OCLC matches this item. Possibly owned by LC with the title: The misadventures of a pair of newlyweds who leave the country for the superior pleasures and society of London. Attributed to Lane, Theodore 1800-1828. [London?, 1818]. Description:, etch. panorama in 12 sections : hand col. ; each 13 x 73 cm. (in album) 33 x 40 cm. Note(s):, Possibly by Theodore Lane./ 12 satirical scenes with doggerel verse: "Mister L'Squat quite full of life"; "The heyday of their honey-moon"; "Pitched in the pond"; "Lolling on bench"; "Gluttons of the east"; "At the concerts"; "At billiards"; "At the masquerade"; "Promenade"; "At a grand review"; "Crowds of creditors"; "The hour of tribulations." Other Title: "Mister O'Squat and Widow Shanks."
Item description: Previously attributed to Rowlandson (another copy not Princeton attributed to Lane). Neither artist is correct. Jm 7/2009. See http://blogs.princeton.edu/graphicarts.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
2

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/61a439a0-eab9-4067-9b09-3f91f0bf8e47/manifest