People living a life of fantasy as a result of being excessively influenced by reading novels. Coloured etching after G.M. Woodward, 1800.

  • Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.
Date:
Nov. 9th 1800
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493414i
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Pigmy revels or all alive at Lilliput
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Right to left: a rich bookseller's son ill-dressed in imitation of a character in a a novel; a woman novel-reader wanting to act out scenes from 'Sir Charles Grandison' with a clergyman; a cook imitating Don Quixote; a young woman seeing her beloved man through Fielding's character Joseph Andrews

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[London] (No. 50, Piccadilly corner of Sackville St.) : S.W. Fores, Nov. 9th 1800.

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1 print : etching, with watercolour ; platemark 10.2 x 49 cm.

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Well to be sure ... in our shop

References note

British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, no. 9638

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Wellcome Collection 493414i

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