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Farmer Giles's establishment - Christmas Day - 1800
Collection: SCM - Art Object Name: print; etching Maker: Heath, William; McLean, Thomas Place Made: Haymarket, City of Westminster, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom Date Made: 1830 Measurements: overall: 240 mm x 350 mm |

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Description: Etching, col: Farmer Giles's establishment - Christmas Day - 1800, William Heath, published by T. McLean 1830; Pub: Jany. 10 1830 by T McLean 26 Haymarket, Sole Pub of W H Editions 1830; col. 24x35cm. Headed: Plate 1st. - First of three caricatures issued to show the descent from prosperity under "Farmer" George III - a festive scene with mistletoe, hams, slicing Christmas pudding, family jollity around the table - [to plate 3, a debtor's cell by Christmas 1829, the farmer's children in the workhouse, the effects of agricultural depression]
Object Number: 1989-200 |
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