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Market-day - Gibralter.

Print
1819 (made)
Artist/Maker
Charles ('Argus') Williams (artist)
Place of origin
London (made)

Print depicting soldiers riding into a market square on the backs of pigs.


Object details

Categories
Prints
Military
Illustration
Object type
Print
TitleMarket-day - Gibralter. (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
hand-coloured aquatint on paper
Paper
Aquatint
Hand Colouring
Brief description
Charles Williams ('Argus'), 'Market-day - Gibralter' (sic) illustration to The Adventures of Johnny Newcome in the Navy by John Mitford, R.N. Aquatint coloured by hand, London, 1819.
Physical description
Print depicting soldiers riding into a market square on the backs of pigs.
Dimensions
  • Height: 5.375in
  • Width: 8.25in
Place depicted
Gibraltar
Bibliographic references
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1950, London: HMSO, 1962.
  • The British Museum, Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires, London, n.d.
  • J.R. Abbey, Life in England in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1863 from the Library of J.R. Abbey. A Bibliographical Catalogue. London, 1953.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.704-1950

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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