Terms and conditions of use
The civil list
1830
Medium
hand-coloured etching
Measurements
20.8 × 32.5 cm (image) 24.0 × 34.9 cm (image and text) 25.4 × 36.1 cm (sheet, trimmed within platemark) 27.2 × 40.5 cm (backing sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1926
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
London, England
Catalogue/s Raisonné
BM Satires 16396
Printing/Publishing
published by Thomas McLean, London
Inscription
printed in ink l.l.: W Heath
printed in ink l.r.: Pub Dec 24 1830 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket London
printed in ink l.c.l.: THE CIVIL LIST !!!
printed in ink (in image) (in speech bubbles) u.c.: my eyes wot a lot of ‘em . I say Jack do you know wot they do (do underlined) for all that are blunt / why I suppose they are werry Civil (Civil underlined) / I was always werry civil, but I only got 16d (d in superscript) a day / and I wur civil too – but I ant a got Nothin (civil Nothin underlined)
printed (diagonally) in ink (in image) (in river) l.r.: ARISTOCRATIC DITCH
printed in ink (in image) (on sign) l.r.: NOTICE to the / CANAILLE / this stream / is not fordable
Accession Number
2433-3
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
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