A night scene at Ranelagh on Wednesday 6th of May 1752 [graphic]

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Title: A night scene at Ranelagh on Wednesday 6th of May 1752 [graphic]
Contributor: Carpenter, Henry, publisher.
Published / Created: May 29 [1752]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd according to the act by H. Carpenter
Description: Title etched above image.
'Price 6d'--Following imprint.
One line of text below title: Thus I bore my point; six rogues in buckram let drive at me.
Three lines of quotation from Henry IV, Part I, below image: I am a rogue if I were not at half sword with a dozen of them two hours together ...
Another state, with 'Libeller' instead of 'Swaggerer' in M. Brown's speech balloon. Cf No. 3183 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark at bottom.
Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: entrance to the Rotunda at Ranelagh -- Lighting: street(?) lamps -- Literature: quotation from Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1 -- Mountefort Brown, fl. 1752 -- Mr. Cole, Master of the Ceremonies at Ranelagh -- Constables.
Provenance: Suckling; May 1956;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 32.7 x 21.5 cm, on sheet 37 x 27 cm
Edition: [State with libeller].
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1752
Engravings England London 1752
Etchings England London 1752
Material: etching & engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Hill, John, 1714?-1775
Subjects: Hill, John, 1714?-1775 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1752
England > London > 1752

Access: Public
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