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.
1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 34.8 x 24.2 cm, folded to 31 x 24.2 cm.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark; mounted to 32 x 26 cm.
Mounted on page 49 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
Provenance: With the armorial bookplates of "Fraser, of Ledeclune, baronet" and "Herbert Henry Raphael" in volume. Sold at Sotheby's, 22 April 1901, to Sotheran. Schatzki, lot 1193; June 1961;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 35.5 x 25.1 cm, on sheet 37 x 26 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Quarto 724 771N
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?].