<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>Real inhabitants of this earth [graphic]</dc:title><dc:creator>Shepheard, George, 1770-1842, printmaker</dc:creator><dc:date>[10 January 1796]</dc:date><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:description>"An elderly man, his profile caricatured, dressed as a military officer, inspects through a glass a fat man and boy (left), both Dutch, wearing baggy breeches and sabots, who lean against a rail, the man smoking a pipe. A pretty young woman, wearing a high-waisted travelling dress and small hat, takes the officer's arm; her left hand is in a large muff. Behind are the masts of a vessel backed by chalk cliffs, showing that the rail edges a small creek or harbour; on the right are a beam and pulley."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state</dc:description><dc:description>Title etched below image.</dc:description><dc:description>Sheet trimmed to plate mark.</dc:description><dc:description>One of a set of six plates by Shepheard after Bunbury that were first published by Thomas Macklin.</dc:description><dc:description>For a reissue published 1 January 1809 by J. Deeley, see no. 11456 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8.</dc:description><dc:description>Mounted on page 95 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>