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A corner, near the bank;-or-an example for fathers.-   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: James Gillray

Published by: Hannah Humphrey
Title
A corner, near the bank;-or-an example for fathers.-
Description
English: An elderly man, bent to deformity, thin and shambling, in profile to the left, follows two flamboyant prostitutes who walk arm-in-arm, looking behind them. He supports himself on a walking-stick; from his pocket protrudes a book: 'Modest Prints'. The women's dresses trail on the pavement, but one lifts her skirt to display her legs. The background is formed of the massive stones at the corner of a high building. 26 September 1797
Hand-coloured etching
Date 1797
date QS:P571,+1797-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 342 millimetres
Width: 252 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1851,0901.880
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942) A caricature and a 'striking resemblance' of 'Old P------', a clerk at the Bank of England who was a notorious debauchee. 'Description', 1830, p. 228.

Wright and Evans, No. 428. Reprinted, 'G.W.G.', 1830.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1851-0901-880
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