Tyger and his master [graphic].

Description

Title: Tyger and his master [graphic].
Alternative Title: Tiger and his master
Creator: Collings, Samuel, printmaker
Published / Created: [February 1794]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "A young man in profile to the right, with a knotted bludgeon under his arm, holds a fierce mastiff by the collar. This collar, being inscribed 'Hamil[ton]', shows that the duke is Douglas, 8th Duke (1756-95), Duke of Brandon in the English peerage. He has cropped hair and wears the dress of the young blood of 1791, with the star of the Thistle."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title engraved below image.
Text above image: Engraved for the Carlton House magazine.
Printmaker from earlier state with title, 'The Ruffian Duke', and lettered ''Attic Miscellany.' and 'Annabal Scratch fecit' issue in 1791.
Caricatures published under the pseudonym Annibal Scratch have been attributed to Samuel Collings.
Cf. No. 7958 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
Provenance: Suckling; November 1956.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 166 x 108 mm, on sheet 21 x 13 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1794
Engravings England London 1794
Periodical illustrations
Etchings England London 1794
Material: etching & engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Hamilton, Douglas Hamilton, Duke of, 1756-1799
Subject (Topic): Dogs
Subjects: Hamilton, Douglas Hamilton, Duke of, 1756-1799 > Caricatures and cartoons
Dogs
England > 1794
England > London > 1794

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