Dick the butcher & Smith the weaver seizing the clerk of Chatham [graphic]

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Title: Dick the butcher & Smith the weaver seizing the clerk of Chatham [graphic]
Alternative Title: Dick the butcher and Smith the weaver seizing the clerk of Chatham
Creator: Coles, J., printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Macklin, Thomas, publisher.
Published / Created: [20 August 1795]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd August 20th, 1795, by Thos. Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street
Description: Title from caption below image.
Lines of dialogue on either side of title: Smith. The clerk of Chatham, he can write and read, and cast accompt. ... Vide 2nd part of Henry 6th, Act 4, Sc. 2.
One of a series of plates illustrating scenes from Shakespeare's plays, engraved after the drawings of Bunbury by various printmakers and published 1792-1796 by Thomas Macklin.
Provenance: Gift of Joseph Verner Reed (Yale 1926) to the Yale Library, 1958. Portions were transferred to Lewis Walpole Library 1960. For other items from this gift refer to Beinecke Library's GEN MSS 1000.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 432 x 535 mm, on sheet 500 x 600 mm
Language: English

Genre: Illustrations
Stipple engravings England London 1795
Etchings England London 1795
Material: stipple engraving and etching with engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Illustrations
England > London > 1795

Access: Public
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