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Print made by unknown artist, eighteenth century, A Section of a Magnificent & Superb Water Closet, ca. 1790
- Title:
- A Section of a Magnificent & Superb Water Closet
- Date:
- ca. 1790
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching, hand-colored
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 4 3/4 x 4in. (12.1 x 10.2cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered inside image, upper center: "Poor | Old England"; center: "G R"; center left: "Cecofoyo fecit"; lower center: "Frizz Trump Exc."; center right: "Lillecompoop Sculp"; below image: "A SECTION of a Magnificient & Superb WATER CLOSET. | with an exact front view of a LITTLE PERSONAGE bound up by excru- | tiating evils endevouring by main force of straining & distortion | to Irradicate & exterminate by laborious perserverance those hard | bound racking & growing Evils that have for a long | Series of time burnt up those interiors which are most | Suceptable of pain. | send him a good deliverance"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.1089
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:42521
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