A brace of public guardians [graphic]

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Title: A brace of public guardians [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker, artist
Contributor: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Published / Created: [10 July 1800]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. 10 July, 1800, by R. Ackermann at the Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Abstract: "Design in two compartments; the left-hand side, a judge declaiming with eyes directed upwards, while another seated beneath his gaze, in the foreground r, exchanges money with a desperate-looking man; the right-hand side, a night-watchman armed with truncheon and rattle, oblivious to two men putting a ladder to a window at left, and an officer embracing a young woman in a sentry-box to right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Two designs on one plate.
Described in Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 328 with the additional subtitles 'A court of justice - a watchman', and dated 15 June 1796.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 35.8 x 51.2 cm.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint.
Mounted to 40 x 57 cm.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xv, p. 21-22.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 37.4 x 52 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1800
Etchings England London 1800
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1800
England > London > 1800
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

Access: Public
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