John Bull's watchman neglecting his duty!!! [graphic].

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Title: John Bull's watchman neglecting his duty!!! [graphic].
Contributor: Cawse, John, 1779-1862, artist.
Published / Created: [1800]
Publication Place: Weimar
Publisher: Im Verlage des Industrie-Comptoirs
Description: Title from caption etched below image.
Reduced copy of a print of the same title by Cawse, published by Fores on January 1, 1800. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 9508.
Publication information from periodical for which the plate was etched.
Plate from: London und Paris. Weimar: Im Verlage des Industrie-Comptoirs, 1800, v. 5., p. 252.
Numbered 'No. VIII' in upper right corner.
Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: Treasury -- Elections: Westminster election, 1800 -- Literature: allusion to Sheridan's Pizarro -- Lighting: watchman's lantern -- Animals: watchdog -- Thieves -- Bags of money -- Cap of liberty as bonnet rouge.
Mounted to 27 x 37 cm.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch Collection ; Dec. 1966 ;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 17.5 x 22.5 cm, on sheet 19 x 24 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1800
Etchings Germany Weimar 1800
Material: etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811
Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834
Subject (Topic): John Bull (Symbolic character)
Subjects: Pitt, William, 1759-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816 > Caricatures and cartoons
Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811 > Caricatures and cartoons
Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834 > Caricatures and cartoons
John Bull (Symbolic character) > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1800
Germany > Weimar > 1800

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