Morning and in low spirits. A scene in a lock up house [graphic]

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Title: Morning and in low spirits. A scene in a lock up house [graphic]
Creator: Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker
Contributor: Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, artist.
Sherwood, Jones, and Co., publisher.
Published / Created: [ca July 1825]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. by Sherwood & Co.
Abstract: Hayne sits, pen in hand, at a table, nervously facing a burly ruffian holding a large key who proffers a paper headed 'items'. Other debtors site by the fire or gaze from the padlocked window of the sponging-house. There are pictures of the two chief debtors' prisons, 'Bench' and 'Fleet', and a framed table of 'House Fees. Fire 0 2.6. Candles 0.2.6. Bed 0.10.6. Warming do. 0.1.0. Breakfast 0.7.6. Eggs 0.2.0. Total £1.7.0. See British Museum catalogue
Description: Title from caption below image.
Date in imprint burnished out. Date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Date of publication erased from sheet.
Provenance: Levehulme-Auchincloss, vol. xviii.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 15.7 x 24 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1825
Aquatints England London 1825
Etchings England London 1825
Watermarks (Paper) J Whatman Turkey Mill
Material: aquatint and etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Debt
Poverty
Subjects: Debt
Poverty
England > 1825
England > London > 1825
J Whatman Turkey Mill

Access: Public
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