[The Humours of the Lilliputians: represented in above fifty comical figures engraved as big as life after the original drawings of Captain Lemuel Gulliver.]
[London: Printed and sold by John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill] [c.1780.]
12 engravings, each sheet c. 125 x 290mm (5 x 11½"). Trimmed, losing plate numbers, laid on three album sheets.
A collection of dwarfish caricature figures, some from John Gay's ''Beggar's Opera'', including MacHeath, Polly Peachum and Lucy Locket. but others from other sources including ''Mynheer Van Funk, a Dutch Skipper'', ''Peter Terrible Wingbeard, a Virginia Planter'' and ''Hogan-Mogan Long-pipe a Dutch Indian Governor''. The caricatures were printed six to a page, but these have been cut in half horizontally. The Harvard Library example has a title page and ten sheets of six caricatures.
Harvard Library Hollis Collection 990056978230203941. See Arents Collection New York.
[Ref: 58032] £3,000.00
12 engravings, each sheet c. 125 x 290mm (5 x 11½"). Trimmed, losing plate numbers, laid on three album sheets.
A collection of dwarfish caricature figures, some from John Gay's ''Beggar's Opera'', including MacHeath, Polly Peachum and Lucy Locket. but others from other sources including ''Mynheer Van Funk, a Dutch Skipper'', ''Peter Terrible Wingbeard, a Virginia Planter'' and ''Hogan-Mogan Long-pipe a Dutch Indian Governor''. The caricatures were printed six to a page, but these have been cut in half horizontally. The Harvard Library example has a title page and ten sheets of six caricatures.
Harvard Library Hollis Collection 990056978230203941. See Arents Collection New York.
[Ref: 58032] £3,000.00