A Chip of the Old Block

Gleadah after Tregear

A Chip of the Old Block

London, Tregear May 1^st 1832

Etching

Original hand colouring

250 x 345 mm

£240

A rare Tregear caricature.

A mother lies in bed, some time after having given birth. Her proud husband stands at the foot of the bed. To the rear, beside the bed, a delighted midwife holds out their baby, and exclaims My goodness gracious ! Hear’s a Family Likeness for ye – It’s daddy all over with it’s Mummy’s Nose – Bless it’s little Soul—hey diddle diddle—.The baby has a huge bulbous nose just like her mother and father. Her right arm ends in a stump with a metal hook attached, and her left leg ends above her knee with a peg leg attached, both just like her father. She is also shown balding with a long pigtail tied with a bow, and wearing spectacles, also just like her father.

In the left hand margin is inscribed

See the following laughable plates One Shilling Each

Lease Holders

Living Cheap

Compliments of the Season

Humorous Scraps 6 Plates

Matrimony

Tenant at Will

Tregear’s flights of Humour 16 plates

Below the title and publication lines is inscribed,

Enter’d at Stationers Hall  and   Beware of Imitations