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Who'll have a crown – now’s your time
1830
Medium
hand-coloured etching
Measurements
21.0 × 32.3 cm (image) 23.8 × 35.2 cm (image and text) 25.1 × 36.0 cm (sheet, trimmed within platemark)
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 16121
Printing/Publishing
published by Thomas McLean, London
Inscription
printed in ink l.l.: WHeath
printed in ink l.r.: Pub May 29 1830 by T McLean (c in superscript) / 26 Haymarket
printed in ink u.c.: WHO’LL HAVE A CROWN – NOW’S YOUR TIME
printed in ink l.l.-l.c.r.: Why. there was a crown offered him : and being offered him , he put it with the back of his hand , thus ; vive Julis Caesar – (vive Julis Caesar underlined)
printed in ink (in image) (in speech bubble) u.c.: you see Gentlemen I’ve got a head on my shoulders & wish to keep it there
printed in ink (in image) (in speech bubble) u.c.: well I think you are right not to take / it-shall I give it to O’Connell or Cobbet (O’Connell Cobbet underlined)
Accession Number
2434-3
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
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