Billy Lackbeard and Charley Blackbeard playing at football [graphic]

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Title: Billy Lackbeard and Charley Blackbeard playing at football [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, publisher.
Published / Created: [7 February 1784]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. Feby. 7th, 1784, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Abstract: On the left, William Pitt, his arms and one leg raised, is looking up at the East India House that he has just kicked toward Charles Fox who stands ready to toss it back. Behind Fox is a table with dice and a dice box on it. Playing cards are scattered on the floor. Behind Pitt an open book inscribed, "Blackstone," indicates his barrister's education
Description: Title etched below image.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 23.9 x 34.4 cm.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Formerly mounted on leaf 45 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
Provenance: From a collection in fourteen volumes compiled by Francis Harvey and dispersed at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Sold at Sotheby, London, 12 March 1919. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 24.9 x 35 cm, on sheet 27 x 38 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1784
Etchings England London 1784
Material: etching with stipple ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
Subject (Name): Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
East India Company.
Subject (Topic): Clothing & dress
Subjects: Pitt, William, 1759-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
East India Company
Clothing & dress > England > 1780-1790
England > 1784
England > London > 1784
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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