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The back-biters, or High bum-fiddle pig bow wow

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Hannah Humphrey

The back-biters, or High bum-fiddle pig bow wow

Published

London : Publish'd Jany. 16th. 1787, by H. Humphrey, No. 51 New Bond Street, [1787]

etching
image: 192 x 252 mm; plate mark: 235 x 275 mm; sheet: 259 x 309 mm
Peel 2574
Notes
A reissue; originally published by George Townly Stubbs, with imprint: "London Pub'd May 16, 1786 by G.T. Stubbs, Peters Court St. Martins Lane."
Provenance

Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.

Summary

Two ladies with the enormous derrières and bosoms of the day stand back-to-back. A small dog on the rump of the lady on the left barks at a small wild boar on the rump of the lady on the right.

Associated names
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints