Foot pad's, or, Much ado about nothing [graphic].

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Title: Foot pad's, or, Much ado about nothing [graphic].
Alternative Title: Much ado about nothing
Foot-pads
Creator: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Contributor: Laurie & Whittle, publisher.
Published / Created: [4 May 1795]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published 4th May 1795 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Description: Title from item.
Printmaker identified from an original drawing in the Huntington Library.
One of a series of Drolls.
Four lines of verse in two columns below title: Buck's with Truncheon's swagger and knock down ...
Plate numbered '150' in lower right corner.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Literature: Foot-pads -- Watches: pocket watch -- Highway robbery -- Milestones -- Bludgeons.
Watermark: Strasburg bend (partial) with initials GR below.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. vi.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 20 x 25.1 cm, on sheet 24 x 30 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1795
Etchings England London 1795
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching with engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Subject (Topic): Blacks
Clocks & watches
Robberies
Traffic signs & signals
Crutches
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Blacks
Clocks & watches
Robberies
Traffic signs & signals
Crutches
England > 1795
England > London > 1795

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