Blood hounds seizing their prey, i.e., Bow Street patrole upon private business [graphic].

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16192597

Description

Title
Blood hounds seizing their prey, i.e., Bow Street patrole upon private business [graphic].
Alternative Title
Bloodhounds seizing their prey, i.e., Bow Street patrole upon private business
Bow Street patrole upon private business
Contributor
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
Published / Created
[July 1816]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
Pubd. July 1816 by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Description
Title etched below image.
Two lines of quoted text following title: "Proud Nimrod first the bloody chace began, "a mighty hunter, and his prey was man. Pope.
Plate numbered "383" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Reference to Bow Street officers -- Male costume, 1816 -- Police officer -- Swords in scabards -- Thieves.
Leaf 79 in volume 5.
Provenance
Bound in the set of five volumes, formerly owned by Henry Arthur Johnstone. Binding: red morocco with his initials stamped in gold on the front cover in a shield with crossed swords and three floral stamps above and one below; also four floral stamps on spine with volume number and spine title in gold: The caricature magazine. Leather endpapers with his ex libris blind stamped on front flyleaf -- a boat with large sail, with a cutout in the shape of the sun in upper left. Myers; May 1942.
Extent
1 print : plate mark 24.7 x 35 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 42 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 75 W87 807 v.5
Collection Title
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Collection / Other Creator
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Satires (Visual works) England 1816
Etchings England London 1816
Material
etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type
still image
Subjects
England > 1816
England > London > 1816
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
12901063
Object ID (OID)
16192597

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