Robert Dighton, the elder
Mother Goose of Oxford

CultureEnglish
Titles
  • Mother Goose of Oxford
Date1807
PlaceEngland
MediumLithograph
DimensionsImage: 10 3/4 × 7 3/4 in. (27.3 × 19.7 cm)
Sheet: 13 1/2 × 10 7/16 in. (34.3 × 26.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin S. Romansky
Object number75.116
Not on view

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Provenance Research Ongoing Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso lower center in pencil several numerical notations-some crossed through
printed bottom on the image "Dighton ad vivam. del. / Pub. July 1807 by Dighton. Ghar Grols. / MOTHER GOOSE of OXFORD."

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