Murphy Delaney [graphic]

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Title: Murphy Delaney [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
Published / Created: [15 June 1807]
Publication Place: Lond
Publisher: Pub. June 15-1807 by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Abstract: "An Irishman lays about him with a shillelagh. Elderly men flinch back; a doctor, parson, &c, sprawl on the floor (left); others flee from the room (right). A drunken Irishman is the subject of a coroner's inquest; when he proves that he is alive by attacking them, they maintain that since he is dead, their assailant must be his ghost ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Thirty-seven lines of verse below title: It was Murphy Delaney, so funny and frisky, popp'd in a sheebeen shop to get his skin full; and reel'd out again pretty well lin'd with whiskey, so fresh as a shamrock, and blind as a bull ...
Plate numbered "U. 2" in upper left corner and "4" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1.
Also issued separately.
"Price one shilling coloured."
Temporary local subject terms: Irishmen -- Sticks: Shillelage -- Physicians -- Clergy -- Parsons.
Watermark: J Whatman.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, Vol. XII.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 28 x 22.1 cm, on sheet 33 x 25 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 807.06.15.01 Impression 1
Collection Title: V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Collection / Other Creator: Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1807
Etchings England London 1807
Watermarks (Paper) J Whatman
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1807
England > London > 1807
J Whatman
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership

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