- Title:
- The Siphons or Tale of a Tub
- Date:
- 1783
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching, hand-colored
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower left: "2/6"
Lettered inside image, upper left: : "The Cock for Private Services | C Fox's | Cock Royal"; upper center: "'The cask sounds empty & weill it might my Lord for we & our Friends have long been drawing from it' | Premier"; upper right: "Election Bribe & Pension Cock | Lord No...h's Cock | Admiralty | 'A Plenum in my Cask I Shrew, | with Plus & Plus behind Sir; | and now that Cask runs minus low | A Vacuum some will find for.'"; The Treasury Tub"; lower left: "For C. Fox to be left at the Rattle Box Hazard Row till called for"; lower center: "National Tub"; lower right: "For Mr. Deputy Secretary to be left at the Vicar of Bray Head - Bushy Park"; lettered below image, lower left: "Pub May 24, 1783 by Thos Snoozel, at the Cock of Bottle Maiden Head Thicket"; lower center: "The Siphons or Tale of a Tub"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.1065
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:41958
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Print made by unknown artist, eighteenth century, The Siphons or Tale of a Tub, 1783
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