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James Gillray
1756-1815
"Ah, grant a me von letel bite."
etching
plate mark: 187 x 140 mm; image: mm (circular); sheet: 20 x 16 cm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2314
Published:
London : Publishd. Decr. 1st, 1780, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand, [1 December 1780]
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes:
Title etched below image.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Summary:
A foppishly dressed young man, intended to represent a starving Frenchman, is begging for a "letel bite" from a boy in a butcher's apron. The boy is holding a large bone in his hands and has a slab of beef ribs sticking out of his pocket.
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