V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An Irishman lays about him with a shillelagh. Elderly men flinch back; a doctor, parson, &c, sprawl on the floor (left); others flee from the room (right). A drunken Irishman is the subject of a coroner's inquest; when he proves that he is alive by attacking them, they maintain that since he is dead, their assailant must be his ghost ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Thirty-seven lines of verse below title: It was Murphy Delaney, so funny and frisky, popp'd in a sheebeen shop to get his skin full; and reel'd out again pretty well lin'd with whiskey, so fresh as a shamrock, and blind as a bull ..., Plate numbered "U. 2" in upper left corner and "4" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., Also issued separately., "Price one shilling coloured.", Temporary local subject terms: Irishmen -- Sticks: Shillelage -- Physicians -- Clergy -- Parsons., and Watermark: J Whatman.