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The Irish Poets Grace to a Short Allowance
PRINTS AND DRAWINGS
print
Woodward, G. M.; Cruikshank, George; Tegg, Thomas
Europe: United Kingdom, England, London
c.1809?
paper
overall: 300 x 351 mm

Colour print (hand-coloured etching and engraving), originally plate 113 fro ma bound volume, depicting a hungry Irish family at the dinner table bearing a loaf and four potatoes, with broken chairs, a shredded tablecloth and a very thin cat. The woman on the right wears what appears to be a pair of bridgeless eyeglasses without sides.


1999.560

BOA Purchase, 1933



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