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The Elgin Marbles! or John Bull buying stones at the time his numerous family want bread!!

The Elgin Marbles! or John Bull buying stones at the time his numerous family want bread!!
(1816)

Medium
hand-coloured etching
Measurements
20.3 × 32.5 cm (image) 22.2 × 34.1 cm (plate) 28.5 × 37.8 cm (sheet)
Place/s of Execution
London, England
Catalogue/s Raisonné
BM Satires 12787; Cohn 1086; Reid 565
Printing/Publishing
published by J. Sidebotham, London
Inscription
printed in ink l.l.-l.r.: The Elgin Marbles! or John Bull buying Stones at the time his numerous Family want Bread !!
printed in ink (in image) u.c.-l.r.: (text in speech bubbles and printed on leaflets)
Accession Number
1288-4
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1944
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Gallery location
Not on display
Subjects (general)
Human Figures Humour and Satire Monuments and Memorials
Subjects (specific)
antiquities (object genre) cartoons (humorous images) costs families (kinship groups) hunger statues
Movements
Regency (British)