Excuse us if you please sir [graphic].
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Description
- Title
- Excuse us if you please sir [graphic].
- Contributor
- Fores, S. W., publisher.
- Published / Created
- [30 August 1787]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Published August 30st, 1787, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
- Abstract
-
On the left, a man with a beard and wearing a hat holds the coat of a short, bald man in waist coat, shirt, and trousers who is advancing to the right, fists up and ready to fight. In the front on the right is a foppish man holding an open snuff box in his right hand. He advances, pointing his left leg and wearing an expression of extreme alarn, and bowing at the pugilist. Between them but behind stands an older man in enourous boots and with a curious hairdo, who spreads his hands in a gesture of despair. A fifth man, standing in back of the fop, also wears an expression of apprehension
- Description
-
Title etched below image.
Date altered in plate. First published August 31st, 1785, by S.W. Fores.
Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires. - Provenance
- Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. iv.
- Extent
- 1 print : plate mark 23.8 x 19 cm, on sheet 26 x 21 cm
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 787.08.30.01
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Satires (Visual works) England 1787
Etchings England London 1787 - Material
- etching with stipple ; and laid paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Topic)
-
Boxing
Fighting - Subjects
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Boxing
Fighting
England > 1787
England > London > 1787
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 11650233
- Object ID (OID)
- 10728348