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Print 1971-2797
Print: "The Comical HOTCH-POTCH, or the ALPHABET turn'd POSTURE-MASTER."
Print 1971-2797

Print: "The Comical HOTCH-POTCH, or the ALPHABET turn'd POSTURE-MASTER."

DateSeptember 25, 1782
Artist/Maker Carington Bowles (1724 - 1793)
OriginEngland, London
MediumBlack and white engraving with watercolor on laid paper
DimensionsOH: 9 1/2" x OW: 13 1/2"
Credit LineGift of an Anonymous Donor
Object number1971-2797
DescriptionThe lower margin reads: "The Comical HOTCH-POTCH, or the ALPHABET turn'd POSTURE-MASTER./ Do but see this Comic Set/ Of Fellows form the Alphabet./ Printed for & Sold by CARINGTON BOWLES/ at N.o 69 in S.t Pauls Church Yard, LONDON./ Publish'd as the Act directs 25 Sep.r 1782."
Shows men posed as 24 letters of the alphabet with a ryhme under each image. The letters "J" and "U" are ommitted, as most people in the eighteenth century used the "I" and "V" interchangably.