Tit for tat [graphic].

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Title: Tit for tat [graphic].
Contributor: Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794, publisher.
Published / Created: Novr. 24, 1786.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for R. Sayer, Map, Chart & Printseller, No. 53 Fleet Street, as the act directs
Abstract: On a street corner just outside the door of an adjacent building, a foppish young gentleman who stands with his one hand on his hip and holds a cane in the other, rests his foot on a bucket that he has kicked over. The owner of the bucket, a pretty young maidservant, brandishes her mop in his face in retaliation
Description: Title etched above image.
Four lines of verse in two columns below print and above imprint statement: As Lucifer proud with a s ugly a face, Billy Prig kicks the pailwith puppyish grace, Sweet Sir replies Betty, I thank yo for that, And return you the favour -- There's tit for your tat.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. iv.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 24 x 188 cm, on sheet 28.8 x 22.1 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1786
Engravings England London 1786
Material: etching & engraving with stipple ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Cobblestone streets
Dandies
Mops & mopsticks
Relations between the sexes
Servants
Young women
Subjects: Cobblestone streets
Dandies
Mops & mopsticks
Relations between the sexes
Servants
Young women
England > 1786
England > London > 1786

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