Retaliation, or, The cudgeller caught [graphic]

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Title: Retaliation, or, The cudgeller caught [graphic]
Alternative Title: Cudgeller caught
Creator: Kay, John, 1742-1826, printmaker
Published / Created: [not before 1877]
Publication Place: Edinburgh
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: A porter is shown beating Captain Crawford with a stick. Behind the pair is Miss Hay of Mountblairy and Crawford's sister who wields her own stick. An imaginary incident based on Captain Crawford's 1784 threat against the printmaker
Description: Title etched below image.
Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book.
Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1877).
Numbered in lower left of plate: 47.
Restrike of no 6691 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
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 148 x 104 mm, on sheet 28 x 20 cm
Language: English

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