Sansom, Francis, active 1784-1799, The Lillipution museum, or, Exhibition of pigmy revels, [1819?]
- Title(s):
- The Lillipution museum, or, Exhibition of pigmy revels [graphic] : intended to create joy for the juvenile, laughter for the languid, fun for the feeble, sauce for the serious, and mirth for the melancholy : containing wit without indecency, humour without vulgarity, mirth without malice, and satire without personality : adapted also to ornament, or border rooms, paste into folios, or cut out for screens or scrap books, etc. etc.
- Additional Title(s):
- Exhibition of Pigmy revels
- Published/Created:
- [London] : Pubd. by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, [1819?]
- Physical Description:
- 1 print : etching with stipple, hand-colored ; sheets end-to-end 10 x 267 cm, rolled (in wooden case) to 10 x 4 cm (scroll format)
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsPN6161 .L55 1819 FlatYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon CollectionView by request in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Copyright Status:
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/11742151
- Classification:
- Prints
- Notes:
- Title and imprint from publisher's original printed label, on boxwood case.
Originally issued as Pigmy revels, or, All alive at Lilliput, by George Moutard "Mustard George" Woodward in 1800-1801 as eight colored double-page plates etched by Francis Sansom and Thomas Rowlandson, each measuring 13 x 18 5/8 inches with three strip views of grotesques on each, forming a continuous series between brown wash borders.
Restricted fragile material. Use requires permission of the Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts.
BAC: British Art Center copy in publisher's original boxwood drum, bearing illustrated title label. - Subject Terms:
- Caricatures and cartoons -- Great Britain -- Pictorial works.English wit and humor, Pictorial.Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 19th century -- Caricatures and cartoons.Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Caricatures and cartoons.Political satire -- Great Britain.Political satire, English -- Pictorial works.Satire, English.
- Form/Genre:
- Engravings -- Hand-colored -- 1819.
Panoramas -- England -- London.
Caricatures.
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1800-1801. - Export:
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