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Title	People living a life of fantasy as a result of being excessively influenced by reading novels. Coloured etching after G.M. Woodward, 1800.
Imprint	[London] (No. 50, Piccadilly corner of Sackville St.) : S.W. Fores, Nov. 9th 1800

Access	Location Shelfmark	Availability
Online request	Closed stores Iconographic	Available

Physical description	1 print : etching, with watercolour ; platemark 10.2 x 49 cm.
Series	Pigmy revels or all alive at Lilliput ; plate 4
Lettering	Well to be sure ... in our shop
References	British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, no. 9638
Summary	Right to left: a rich bookseller's son ill-dressed in imitation of a character in a a novel; a woman novel-reader wanting to act out scenes from 'Sir Charles Grandison' with a clergyman; a cook imitating Don Quixote; a young woman seeing her beloved man through Fielding's character Joseph Andrews
Cite as	Wellcome Library no. 493414i
Author, etc.	Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), ca. 1760-1809.
Subject name	Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761. History of Sir Charles Grandison.
Topic-LCSH	Fiction -- Moral and ethical aspects.
	Books and reading -- Moral and ethical aspects.
	Fictitious characters.
	Role models.
	Reading, Psychology of.
	Don Quixote (Fictitious character)
Genre/Technique	Borders, Ornamental (Decorative arts)
	Etchings.
Copy photo no.	V 48946
	L 49018 after cleaning
System no.	.b14934140
Record no.	493414i

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