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Title:Gradual abolition, or, Water gruel and patience [graphic]: a cheap and wholesome succedaneum for nerve weakening tea and slave-wrought sugar recommended to the British fair by Scotch oeconomy.
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Publication:[London] : Pub. by W. Dent, April 23d, 1792.
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Physical Description:1 print : etching and drypoint ; plate mark 24.7 x 34.9 cm, on sheet 27 x 41 cm
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Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings (Non-Circ)
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Call Number: 792.04.23.01+
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Status:Not Checked Out
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Notes:Watermark.
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Provenance:Western Hemisphere (Rubin); July 1977; Acquisitions no.: 977-7-1-4.
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Digital version
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Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings (Non-Circ)
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Medium:laid paper.
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Local Notes:Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to the abolition of the slave trade -- Loss of trade -- Boycotts: sugar -- Food substitutes: salt for sugar -- Food: water-gruel -- Dishes -- Utensils: salt shovels -- Dialects: Scottish dialect -- Female fashion: court feathers as headdress -- Antisaccharites -- Eating -- Swearing.
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Notes:Title etched below image.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
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Variant and related titles:Water gruel and patience
- Format:Visual Material
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Subjects:Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818--Caricatures and cartoons.
Charlotte, Queen, Consort of Frederick I, King of Württemberg, 1766-1828--Caricatures and cartoons.
Augusta Sophia, Princess, daughter of George III, King of Great Britain, 1768-1840--Caricatures and cartoons.
Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811--Caricatures and cartoons.
Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806--Caricatures and cartoons.
Eating & drinking.
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Genre/Form:Satires (Visual works)--England--1792.
Drypoints--England--London--1792.
Etchings--England--London--1792.
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Also listed under:Dent, William, active 1783-1793, publisher.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/7815893