Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Sansom, Francis, active 1784-1799
Title:
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.
Alternate 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)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Prints
Notes:
Title and imprint from publisher's original printed label, on boxwood case.
Subject Terms:
Satire, English. | Political satire, English -- Pictorial works. | 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.
Form/Genre:
Engravings -- Hand-colored -- 1819. | Panoramas -- England -- London. | Caricatures. | Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1800-1801.
Contributors:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, ether. | Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist. | Fores, S. W., publisher.