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- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [15 June 1807]
- Call Number:
- 807.06.15.01 Impression 1
- Collection Title:
- 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.
- Publisher:
- Pub. June 15-1807 by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Murphy Delaney [graphic]
