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

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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

Print

Research Area

Print

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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