The reforming constable [graphic].

Description

Title: The reforming constable [graphic].
Contributor: Darly, M. publisher.
Published / Created: [5 March 1772]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. by MDarly, Strand, March 5th, 1772, accorg. to act
Abstract: An obese constable, leaning heavily against stocks set on the ground and holding his staff in his right hand, is reaching for a bottle in his left coat pocket. His unfocused gaze betrays his drunk condition. On a column to his right is pasted a placard, "A proclamation against drunkenness." Below the column, a small dog with a name "Guzzle" on his collar is relieving himself on his master's leg
Description: Title etched below image.
Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram.
Plate numbered '13' in upper right corner.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Constables -- Drunkenness -- Torture.
First of two plates on leaf 42.
1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 24.7 x 17.5 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
Provenance: P. Murray Hill; August 1945;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 24.6 x 17.4 cm, on sheet 27 x 19 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 724 776D
Collection Title: Leaf 42. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Collection Date: [London] : Pubd. by Mary Darly, Jany. 1, 1776.

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1772
Etchings England London 1772
Material: etching with engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Intoxication
Bottles
Signs (Notices)
Staffs (Sticks)
Stocks (Punishment)
Dogs
Urination
Subjects: Intoxication
Bottles
Signs (Notices)
Staffs (Sticks)
Stocks (Punishment)
Dogs
Urination
England > 1772
England > London > 1772

Access: Public
Rights: The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.