"Satire; at right, a thin man and his caped friend, guns in their hands, facing a robust military gentleman standing at centre, with four guns in his belt and a blunderbuss to hand; the three are much concerned at the appearance at left of a doctor with two saws and a large medical chest, a man carrying a coffin, and a gravedigger setting to his work; a man stands behind, balancing a box labelled 'razor blades and bullets' on his head."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from caption below center image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Five designs on one plate, each individually titled., One of six plates in a series., Temporary local subject terms: Animal heads on human figures in a variety of trades and activities -- Calves -- Ducks -- Rabbits -- Fish -- Dogs --, and Watermark: J. Whatman 1830.
"A gouty old magistrate sits at a table in a parlour in an armchair with its back to the fire (right); his clerk writes. A parish beadle with his staff stands just inside the door, behind a ragged dustman or labourer, who scratches his head while a pregnant woman (who is swearing a child to the latter) holds her apron to her eye."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Attributed to Henry Heath in the British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Published Jany. 4, 1825, by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly, London
Subject (Topic):
Gout, Judges, Pregnant women, Fireplaces, Cats, and Dogs
Title from captions below images., Printmaker from initials on first print in the series., Date of publication based on watermark., Four designs on one plate, each individually captioned., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1834.
Title from text above images., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Seven designs on one plate, each individually titled., and Temporary local subject terms:
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1st, 1830, by S. Gans, Southampton St.
