Goobi - ba0d8 - 2020-08-02 18:16:45+0000
Goobi
Hand-coloured etching from a composite album of 97 folios (147 prints) of comic illustrations under the title Darly's Comic Prints of Characters, Caricatures, Macaronies &c., published by Mary and Matthew Darly in London in 1777.
A burthen can refer to the tonnage of a ship based on the number of tons of wine that it could carry, and here probably referring to the capacity of the rich man’s belly to hold liquor. It is also an archaic spelling of burden: the rich man’s burden is his own obesity, the poor man’s, the rich man’s plenty.
The burthens of plenty
Wep 0494.85
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Western Prints and Drawings collection
English (Language)
Approved Category 2017/Printed Material/Print/Intaglio Print/Engraving
Approved Place 2018/Europe/United Kingdom/Great Britain/England/Greater London/London
Engraving
9 July 1776
1768
1778
Approved Material 2018/Organic/Plant (material)/Plant fibre/Paper (material)
Approved Material 2018/Materials/Coating material/Ink (material)
Approved Material 2018/Materials/Colourant (material)/Pigment (material)
Paper (material)
Ink (material)
Pigment (material)
GOOD
295 mm x 465 mm (height x width)
Darly's comic prints
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Darly, M
Darly, M
London
Chester Beatty Library
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