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    • Author/Creator:Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker.
    • Title:A visit to the boarding school [graphic] : the governess introducing little miss to papa and mamma.
    • Publication:[London] : Published 20th June 1797 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London, [20 June 1797]
    • Physical Description:1 print : etching & stipple engraving ; plate mark 20.3 x 25.5 cm, on sheet 24 x 29 cm
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    • Medium:wove paper.
    • Local Notes:Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: schoolrooms -- School mistresses -- Pupils -- Pictures amplifying subject: Tomb of Werter -- Pictures amplifying subject: framed sampler -- Parasols -- Spectacles -- Cross-eyedness -- Female dress, 1797.
    • Notes:Title from item.
      From Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls.
      Three lines of text below title: Here Mrs. Parmesan is Charlotte at the tomb of Werter, shall Miss Dorothy work that ...
      Plate numbered '183' in lower left corner.
      Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
    • Format:Visual Material
    • References:Isaac Cruikshank's drawings for Drolls, no. 62
    • Genre/Form:Satires (Visual works)--England--1797.
      Etchings--England--London--1797.
      Stipple engravings--England--London--1797.
    • Also listed under:Laurie & Whittle, publisher.