Yale Center for British Art

Title:
[Batch of cakes]
Published / Created:
[England? : s.n., 1818?]
Physical Description:
[6] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 16 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
NC1475 .B38 1818
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Six etched caricatures.

Title devised from binder's spine title on the YCBA copy.

In the YCBA copy, the etchings are pasted to paper watermarked 1818.

Sometimes attributed to Thomas Rowlandson.

Engraved throughout.

Interleaved with blank pages.

BAC: British Art Center copy bound in half olive morocco with red marbled boards. Etchings are hand-colored.
Contents:
A heart cake -- A seedy cake -- A plumb cake -- A crusty cake -- A crummy cake -- A floury cake.
Subject Terms:
Caricatures and cartoons -- Great Britain. | Wit and humor, Pictorial. | Satire, English. | Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 18th century. | Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
Form/Genre:
Etchings -- Hand-colored -- 1818.
Contributors:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827, attributed name.