Catlap for ever, or, The smuggler's downfall [graphic].

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Title: Catlap for ever, or, The smuggler's downfall [graphic].
Alternative Title: Smuggler's downfall
Creator: Dent, William, active 1783-1793, printmaker
Contributor: Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: [9 July 1784]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. July 9, 1784, by H. Humphrey, No. 51 New Bond Street
Description: Reissue by Hannah Humphrey with original imprint burnished from plate.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue. Cf. No. 6634.
Temporary local subject terms: East India House: exterior -- Taxes: reduction of tea tax -- Taxes: beginning of commutation tax -- Leadenhall Street, London -- Allusion to monopoly -- Birds: spurred game-cock -- Tea chests -- Expressions of speech: cat-lap.
Watermark in center of sheet: J Whatman.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch ; December 4, 1966 ;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 35 x 24.7 cm, on sheet 39 x 27 cm
Edition: [2nd state].
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1784
Drypoints England London 1784
Etchings England London 1784
Material: etching & drypoint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
House, Samuel, -1785
Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816
Subjects: Pitt, William, 1759-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
House, Samuel, -1785 > Caricatures and cartoons
Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1784
England > London > 1784

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