The fighting taylors [graphic].

Description

Title: The fighting taylors [graphic].
Alternative Title: Fighting tailors
Contributor: Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [17 April 1788]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. Aprill [sic] 17, 1788 by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Abstract: Two tailors, stripped to the waist, fight each other with shears. One tailor has cut off the nose of his emacipated opponent ; his own ear falls to the ground. One of the seconds holds a cucumber in each hand; the other holds a cabbade while on the right another tailor holds a tape measure. On the floor are cucumbers, cabbages, garments, and a tailor's goose
Description: Title etched below image.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. iv.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 20.1 x 27.2 cm, on sheet 22 x 29 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1788
Etchings England London 1788
Material: etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Tailors
Scissors & shears
Cucumbers
Cabbages
Fighting
Subjects: Tailors
Scissors & shears
Cucumbers
Cabbages
Fighting
England > 1788
England > London > 1788

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