Knibs's Pound [graphic].

Description

Title: Knibs's Pound [graphic].
Alternative Title: Knibs' Pound
Contributor: Laurie & Whittle, publisher.
Published / Created: [22 September 1806]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd Septr. 22, 1806, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Abstract: "Two yokels stand outside a rustic inn, with a sign of fighting cocks; peasants are dancing. The verses relate comic incidents of low life in London: quarrelling, drinking, and fightng. They end: 'Then God bless our noble King George, May his reign be ever so long, And grant, as the Parliament's met, That nothing whatever goes wrong'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from broadside printed on the same sheet.
From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls.
Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton.
Broadside portion contains three columns of verse constituting the lyrics of a whimsical ballad.
Plate numbered '441' in upper left corner.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, Vol. XII.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 33.8 x 23.7 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): Country life
Dance
Peasants
Taverns (Inns)
Whips
Carts & wagons
Pipes (Smoking)
Subjects: Country life
Dance
Peasants
Taverns (Inns)
Whips
Carts & wagons
Pipes (Smoking)
England > 1806
England > London > 1806

Access: Public
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