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Title
Overflowing of the Pitt [graphic].
Created/published
[London] : S. Sledge, 1772.
Description
1 print : etching
Associated name
Grimm, Samuel Hieronymus, 1733-1794, artist.
Note
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Item Details
Call number
ART 270686 (size M)
Folger-specific note
From dealer's description: "A social satire, after an original drawing by Samuel Hieronymous Grimm, depicting a group of eight men and women tumbling out of a door leading to the pit of Drury Lane as the boxkeeper and ticket seller look on. The bill posted to one wall announces Much Ado About Nothing (with Garrick) and The Ladies' Frolick. Below is a line from Pope's Rape of the Lock.." Ordered from Dramatis Personae, D 9166, 2017-12-19, Cat. 21, item 138. Adopted by Robin and Mark Swope, Acquisitions Night 2019.
Folger accession
270686