Launce and his dog Crab [graphic].

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Title: Launce and his dog Crab [graphic].
Contributor: Wigstead, Henry, printmaker.
Holland, William, active 1782-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: [22 May 1791]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. May 22, 1791, by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
Description: Title from item.
Attributed in the British Museum catalogue to either Henry Wigstead or William Holland.
Publisher's advertisement below title: In Hollands exhibition rooms may be seen the largest collection of caricatures in Europe. Admitce one shilling.
Temporary local subject terms: Shakespearian costume -- Literature: quotation from Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona, ii, 3 -- Dogs -- Allusion to debate Fox vs. Burke, in House of Commons, 6 May, 1791.
Mounted to 35 x 43 cm.
Provenance: Sanders; June 1961;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 27.5 x 30.1 cm, on sheet 29 x 32 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1791
Etchings England London 1791
Publishers' advertisements .
Material: etching with stipple ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Subjects: Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797 > Caricatures and cartoons
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1791
England > London > 1791

Access: Public
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