There's nothing like a friend to give a man a lift in the world [graphic]

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Title: There's nothing like a friend to give a man a lift in the world [graphic]
Creator: Roberts, P. (Piercy), active 1785-1824, printmaker
Published / Created: [not after 1824]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: An escaped bull has pinned a well dressed man against a print shop window in which numerous caricature prints are on display; the bull has its head low against the man's backside and is about to lift him up with its horn. Another man cowers in fear on the near side of the window; a third man on the far side of the window runs away. Three additional figures farther down the street shake sticks at the bull; in the lower right, a dog takes an aggressive stance and bears its teeth
Description: Title etched below image.
Terminal date of publication based on printmaker Piercy Roberts's active dates.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of text.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Mounted to 28 x 18 cm on a piece of wove paper that was seemingly removed from a scrapbook. Several small etched and lithographed scenes (most of them partially trimmed) are pasted on the recto and verso of mounting sheet; a pencil sketch, added to the blank center of a card (9 x 13.5 cm) that has an embossed frame around its edges, is also pasted on verso.
Provenance: Brian Maidment; July 2024.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 20.7 x 16.6 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English