Research Catalog
Lilliputian characters.
- Title
- Lilliputian characters.
- Publication
- [England : s.n., 173-?]
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Details
- Description
- 17 prints : engraving; 30 x 40 cm.
- Summary
- Dwarf-like figures in groups of three, with four lines of dialogue in verse beneath each figure describing the action in the image. Situations depicted include courtship and adultery, a swordfight, a trial of a woman accused of prostitution who claims to have been raped, a pastoral scene with shepherds and shepherdesses, pilgrims discussing indulgences, a ships captain, a planter from Virginia and a Dutch Indies Governor, men who have been impressed into the army training, cavaliers and courtiers, Polly Peachum and Capt. Mackheath, actors and mimes, servants, a beadle, and a rag man; includes some figures smoking pipes.
- Subject
- Actors
- Adultery
- Beadles
- Charity
- Children
- Courtship
- Dogs
- Dutch
- Dwarfs
- Eating & drinking
- Farmers
- Impressment
- Indulgences
- Inheritance and succession
- Invective
- Irish
- Jealousy
- Judges
- Lawyers
- Marriage
- Military education
- Nobility
- Pantomime
- Penitents
- Pilgrims and pilgrimages
- Prostitution
- Ragpicking
- Rape
- Sailors
- Seduction
- Household employees
- Shepherds
- Smoking in art > England
- Snuff
- Soldiers
- Suits
- Swordplay
- Theater
- Tobacco pipes
- Unrequited love
- Women
- Virginia
- Genre/Form
- Cartoons (Commentary)
- Engravings.
- Prints – English.
- Note
- Title devised by cataloger.
- Figures probably after Il callotto resuscitato, oder, Neu eingerichtes Zwerchen Cabinet, [1715?].
- Many of the same groupings of characters appear in The humours of the Lilliputians ... , Printed and sold by John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill, [178-?].
- Each character is named, some with references to literature or folklore, most with names consisting of puns such as Swillgut Bacon-face, Mrs. Dorothy Dandle-puppy, Widow, and Pigtail Modish, Esqr.
- Access (note)
- Restricted access;
- Call Number
- Arents 96-353 no. 1-17
- OCLC
- NYPG96-F154
- Title
- Lilliputian characters.
- Imprint
- [England : s.n., 173-?]
- Restricted Access
- Restricted access; Arents Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- Arents 96-353 no. 1-17 In box labelled: Lilliputian humorists.