The remarkable French drummer [graphic]

Description

Title: The remarkable French drummer [graphic]
Contributor: Laurie & Whittle, publisher.
Published / Created: [3 October 1803]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd Octr. 3, 1803 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Description: Title from item.
From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls.
Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton.
Two lines of descriptive text below title: This man gets his livelihood by attending the different coffee houses, &c. and playing a concerto on seven drums, accompanied by a full band ; he was sometimes coachman to Robspierre & executioner of that unfortunate monarch Louis the Sixteenth.
Plate numbered '316' in lower left corner.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, Vol. XI.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 20 x 24.6 cm, on sheet 23 x 30 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1803
Etchings England London 1803
Engravings England London 1803
Material: etching and engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1803
England > London > 1803

Access: Public
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