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• Title:Digging and delving [graphic].
  
• Publication:[London] : Publish'd Decr. 16, 1806 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London, [16 December 1806]
  
• Physical Description:1 print : etching with engraving and stipple ; plate mark 22.9 x 28.4 cm, on sheet 24 x 30 cm
  

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  • Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings (Non-Circ)
    Request for Use in the Lewis Walpole Library
    
    
  • Call Number: 806.12.16.01
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Provenance:Leverhulme-Auchincloss, Vol. XII.
    
  •   Digital version
    

   
• Medium:wove paper.
  
• Notes:Title from item.
  From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls.
  Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton.
  One line of text directly below title: Sung by Mr. Incledon in his Popular Entertainment of Hospitality.
  Twenty four lines of verse arranged in three numbered columns above imprint statement: Come Measter I be's going to sing, at least be's going to try ...
  Plate numbered '451' in the lower left corner.
  
• Summary:"Heading to engraved verses: 'Sung by Mr Incledon, in his Popular Entertainment of Hospitality.' A countryman stands full face, reflectively leaning on his spade. Behind is a rustic scene with a cottage. A dog guards his master's coat. The first and last lines: 'Come Measter I be's going to sing, - At least I be's going to try, ... Some dig for ..."--British Museum online catalogue.
  
• Format:Visual Material
• References:Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8, no. 10692
  
• Subjects:Digging.
  Shovels.
  Dogs.
  Dwellings.
  
• Genre/Form:Satires (Visual works)--England--1806.
  Etchings--England--London--1806.
  
• Also listed under:Laurie & Whittle, publisher.