A new Chancery suit removed to the Scotch bar, or, More legitimates [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- A new Chancery suit removed to the Scotch bar, or, More legitimates [graphic]
- Alternative Title
- More legitimates
- Creator
- Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker
- Contributor
- Fores, S. W., publisher.
- Published / Created
- [4 February 1819]
- Publication Place
- London and England London
- Publisher
- Pubd. Feby. 4th, 1819, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly & 312 Oxford Street
- Abstract
-
A satire of a Gretna Green marriage, taking place in front of smithy's shop. Erskine, disguised in woman's dress with a huge feathered bonnet over a barrister's wig, holds the right hand of a demure-looking woman, modishly dressed and apparently pregnant. He holds a paper: 'Breach of Promise'. With them are three young children. The smith wears Highland dress; he holds a red-hot bar on the anvil and raises his hammer, saying, "I shall make a good thing of this Piece at last." Erskine says: "I have bother'd the Courts in London many times, I'll now try my hand at the Scotch Bar--as to Miss C-- she may do her worst since I have got my Letters back." The woman says: "Now who dare say, Blacks the White of my Eye." In the background (right) a young woman rushes down a slope towards the smithy, shouting, "Oh Stop Stop Stop, false Man, I will yet seek redress tho you have got back your letters--" Beside her is a sign-post pointing 'To Gretna Green'. A little boy with Erskine's features, wearing tartan trousers, stands on tip-toe to watch the smith; on the ground beside him is a toy (or emblem), a cock on a pair of breeches. A little girl stands by her mother nursing a doll fashionably dressed as a woman, but with Erskine's profile. Another boy with a toy horse on a string stands in back view watching 'Miss C'. Behind the smith is the furnace; on the wall hang many rings: 'Rings to fit all Hands.'
- Description
-
Title etched below image.
Printed on paper watermarked "1818". - Provenance
- Grosvenor Prints; November 2022.
- Extent
- 1 print : plate mark 24.5 x 34.5 cm, on sheet 26.5 x 37 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 819.02.04.01+
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Caricatures and cartoons
caricatures
Etchings
Hand colored prints
Caricatures
Watermarks (Paper) 1818
Satires (Visual works) England 1819
Etchings England London 1819
Watermarks (Paper) 1819 - Material
- etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Geographic)
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Scotland
Gretna Green
Gretna Green (Scotland)
Gretna Green. - Subject (Name)
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Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823
Erskine, Sarah Buck, Baroness, -1825
Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823. - Subject (Topic)
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Elopement
Breach of promise
Elopements
Ethnic stereotypes
Forge shops
Metalworking
Furnaces
Anvils
Hammers - Subjects
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Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823 > Caricatures and cartoons
Erskine, Sarah Buck, Baroness, -1825 > Caricatures and cartoons
Elopement > Scotland > Gretna Green > Caricatures and cartoons
Breach of promise > Caricatures and cartoons
Gretna Green (Scotland)
Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823
Breach of promise
Elopements
Ethnic stereotypes
Forge shops
Metalworking
Furnaces
Anvils
Hammers
Scotland > Gretna Green
1818
England > 1819
England > London > 1819
1819
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 16468540
- Object ID (OID)
- 33114410