Enough to make an angel swear, or, Real birds plucking the sham [graphic]

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Title: Enough to make an angel swear, or, Real birds plucking the sham [graphic]
Alternative Title: Real birds plucking the sham
Creator: Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836, printmaker
Contributor: McLean, T. publisher.
Published / Created: [approximately 1828]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Abstract: A fashionably dressed young woman, adorned with feathers, is attacked by flocks of birds on the lawn of an estate. Another young woman flees towards the door of the house in the distance
Description: Title from text etched above and below image.
Shortshanks is the pseudonym of Robert Seymour.
Approximate date of publication from dealer's description.
Sheet trimmed to/within plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Purchased from Andrew Edmunds; May 2016.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark x cm, on sheet x cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1828
Etchings England London 1828
Material: etching ; and wove / laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
Subject (Topic): Animal attacks
Birds
Clothing & dress
Subjects: Animal attacks
Birds
Clothing & dress > England > 1820-1830
England > 1828
England > London > 1828

Access: Public
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