The well fed English constable [graphic]

Description

Title: The well fed English constable [graphic]
Creator: Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Contributor: Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809, artist.
Darly, M. publisher.
Published / Created: [1 October 1771]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. according to act of Parlt. Octr. 1st, 1771, by MDarly, engraver, No. 39 Strand
Abstract: "A man in profile showing his enormous belly, holding a stick and with two dogs slavering at a dead fowl in his pocket."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
Description: Title etched below image.
Initial letters of printmaker's name in signature form a monogram.
State without plate number. Cf. No. 4641 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4.
Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram.
Temporary local subject terms: Constables -- Food: fowl -- T. Guttle.
On leaf 26.
1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 35.4 x 25 cm, on sheet 44.4 x 27.5 cm.
Provenance: P. Murray Hill; August 1945;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 35.5 x 25.1 cm, on sheet 37 x 26 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 724 776D
Collection Title: Leaf 26. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c. Page 11. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Collection / Other Creator: King, Richard, Esq.
Collection Date: [London] : Pubd. by Mary Darly, Jany. 1, 1776. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1771
Etchings England London 1771
Engravings England London 1771
Watermarks (Paper) L V G.
Material: etching and engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Obesity
Dogs
Staffs (Sticks)
Subjects: Obesity
Dogs
Staffs (Sticks)
England > 1771
England > London > 1771
L V G.
Raphael, Herbert H. > Ownership
Fraser, William Augustus Sir, 1826-1898 > Ownership

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