Ah, Poor Creed, Are You Gone?, Frontspiece to Vol II of Jonathan Swift's Works
Peter Maverick, American, 1780 - 1831
after William Satchwell Leney, American, 1769 - 1831
1812
Engraving on wove paper
Plate: 3 1/2 × 2 1/2 in. (8.9 × 6.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the Estate of Harold Goddard Rugg, Class of 1906
PR.957.205.6
Publisher
William Durell & Co., New York
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, lower center: Eng.d by P. Maverick, from a Sketch by W.S. Leney / "Ah, poor Creed, are you gone?" "Yes," said Matthew, very composedly, / "and you shall instantly Pack after him;" / Page 114, Vol. 2
Course History
ENGL 20, Age of Satire, Alysia Garrison, Winter 2014
Provenance
Collected by Harold Goddard Rugg (1883-1957, Class of 1906), Hanover, New Hampshire; given by his Estate to present collection, 1957.
Catalogue Raisonne
S.D. Stephens, The Mavericks: American Engravers, New Brunswick, 1950, no. 744.
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