Quick work without a contract by tip-top sawyers [graphic]

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Title: Quick work without a contract by tip-top sawyers [graphic]
Alternative Title: Spree at Melton Mowbray, or, Doing the thing in a sporting-like manner
Creator: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851, printmaker
Contributor: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851, artist.
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 July 1837]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published July 1st, 1837, by R. Ackermann at his Eclipse Sporting Gallery, 191 Regent Stt
Description: Title from caption below image.
Text below title: "If it were done, when tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly." Shakespeare.
Text above image: Anno Domini 1837.
Two columns of verse at bottom of plate: Coming it strong with a spree and a spread, milling the day-lights, or cracking a head ...
Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark and text in upper right margin erased from sheet.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xxiii, p. 16.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 30.1 x 39 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1837
Etchings England London 1837
Aquatints England London 1837
Material: etching and aquatint ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
London.
Subject (Topic): City & town life
Crimes
Subjects: City & town life
Crimes > England > London
England > 1837
England > London > 1837

Access: Public
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