Give a dog an ill name, they'll hang him [graphic]

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Title: Give a dog an ill name, they'll hang him [graphic]
Creator: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Contributor: Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [10 May 1796]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. May 10, 1796, by S.W. Fores, N. 50 Piccadilly
Description: Title from item.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and sides.
Text following publisher's statement: Folios of careatures [sic] lent out for the evening.
Temporary local subject terms: Taxes: Dog Tax, April 1796 -- Excise: duty on sherry and port -- Budgets: Pitt's budget, 1796 -- Gibbets.
Watermark: Strasburg bend; initials below obscured by coloring in the design.
Printseller's stamp in lower right of plate: S.W.F.
Provenance: Suckling ; May 1957.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 39.3 x 26.9 cm, on sheet 40 x 27 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1796
Etchings England London 1796
Watermarks (Paper) E & P.
Booksellers' stamps (Provenance) S. W. Fores
Material: etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816
Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811
Subjects: Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816 > Caricatures and cartoons
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816 > Caricatures and cartoons
Pitt, William, 1759-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1796
England > London > 1796
E & P.
S. W. Fores

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