Shop-lifter detected

Description

Title: Shop-lifter detected
Alternative Title: Shoplifter
Contributor: Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794, publisher.
Collet, John, 1725?-1780, artist.
Published / Created: 10 Augt., 1787.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for R. Sayer, Printseller, No. 53 Fleet Street, as the act directs
Abstract: A young woman is seized by constables and shopkeepers and the items that she has stolen confiscated by her apprehenders
Description: Title from item.
Number '147' in lower right corner of plate.
Temporary local subject terms: Mythology: Mercury.
Provenance: Auchincloss, vol. iv.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 15.2 x 12 cm, on sheet 20 x 14 cm
Language: English

Genre: Genre prints
Mezzotints England London 1787
Material: mezzotint ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
England.
Subject (Topic): Shoplifting
Millinery
Police
Subjects: Shoplifting > England > 1787
Millinery > England > 1787
Police > England
England > London > 1787

Access: Public
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