Gretna Green [graphic].

Description

Title: Gretna Green [graphic].
Contributor: Laurie & Whittle, publisher.
Published / Created: [15 December 1802]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd Decr. 15, 1802, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Abstract: "The blacksmith, wearing a parsonic hat, wig, and gown, stands in the middle of his smithy between two couples. He holds the wrist of an elderly and eager woman (left), addressing a young one (right). Beneath the design: 'A Lady of Sixty, and a young woman of seventeen, lately presented themselves with their paramours at Gretna Green. "Hold hold (said the Matrimonial Vulcan to the Virgin) you are young and can wait a little, I see your Grandmother is impatient, let me put on her fetters first.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched above image.
Plate numbered '282' in lower left corner.
From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls.
Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed either by Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, Vol. X.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 20 x 24 cm, on sheet 23 x 29 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1802
Engravings England London 1802
Stipple engravings England London 1802
Etchings England London 1802
Material: etching and engraving with stipple ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1802
England > London > 1802

Access: Public
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