The sailors defence!! [graphic]

Description

Title: The sailors defence!! [graphic]
Alternative Title: Sailors defense
Creator: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, artist
Contributor: Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
Published / Created: [ca. 1807]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Abstract: "A sailor defends himself to a magistrate against a charge of beating up a man by saying he had no weapons except his fist."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Printmaker questionably identified as Isaac Cruikshank in the British Museum online catalogue.
Later state, with previous plate numbering burnished from plate and new numbering etched in its place. For earlier state with "No. 5" in upper right corner, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 807.00.00.08.1.
Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1948,0214.747.
Plate numbered "6" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1.
Also issued separately.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Lawyer: Country Magistrates -- Male costume: 1807 -- Constable's staff -- Inkwells -- Miniature crowns -- Constables.
Watermark: Charles Wise.
Provenance: Seven Gables ; Sept. 1968 ; Sotheby's Lot 238 [Car. II] to Seven Gables ; July, 1968.
Extent: 1 print :
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Edition: [State with "6" in upper right corner].
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 807.00.00.08.2
Collection Title: V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Collection / Other Creator: Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.