The mail-coach guard written by T. Dibdin Esqr. & sung by Mr. Fawcett, at Covent Garden, in St. Davids Day. [graphic]

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Title: The mail-coach guard written by T. Dibdin Esqr. & sung by Mr. Fawcett, at Covent Garden, in St. Davids Day. [graphic]
Contributor: Laurie & Whittle, publisher.
Published / Created: [12 May 1806]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd May 12, 1806, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Description: Title etched below image.
From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls.
Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed either by Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton.
Twenty-four lines of verse arranged in three numbered columns below title: At each inn on the road I a welcome could find, at the Fleece I'd my skin fill of ale ...
Plate numbered '425' in the 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. xii.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 21.1 x 24.2 cm, on sheet 24 x 28 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1806
Etchings England London 1806
Engravings England London 1806
Material: etching and engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Mail wagons
Guards
Taverns (Inns)
Drinking vessels
Traffic signs & signals
Doors & doorways
Subjects: Mail wagons
Guards
Taverns (Inns)
Drinking vessels
Traffic signs & signals
Doors & doorways
England > 1806
England > London > 1806

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