Peg and Bobby [graphic].

Description

Title: Peg and Bobby [graphic].
Contributor: Laurie & Whittle, publisher.
Published / Created: [12 December 1806]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd Decr. 12, 1806, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Abstract: "A fight between two robbers, one of them a woman, and three armed runners on the road by a milestone marked as 11 miles from St Giles's Pound."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from item.
From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls.
Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton.
One line of text directly below title: A burlesque parody on that tender song call'd Love & Glory. Written & sung by Gaby Grim.
Twelve lines of verse arranged in three columns above imprint statement: Young Bobby was as blythe a youth, As ever grac'd an attic story ...
Plate numbered '449' 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 21.7 x 25.8 cm, on sheet 23 x 28 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1806
Etchings England London 1806
Material: etching with engraving and stipple ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Fighting
Criminals
Daggers & swords
Staffs (Sticks)
Traffic signs & signals
Subjects: Fighting
Criminals
Daggers & swords
Staffs (Sticks)
Traffic signs & signals
England > 1806
England > London > 1806

Access: Public
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