Six designs on one plate arranged in two rows, with borders in which the inscriptions are engraved. Johnny is a smartly dressed young man. There is a landscape background in Nos. 1 and 3 (in which Johnny wears a top-hat and top-boots). In Nos. 2, 4, 5...
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Title engraved above image.
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Published April 1808 by William Holland, Cockspur Street, London
"Social satire; a tall thin man with a tasselled tricorn hat in one hand and wearing a sword, wig, buckled shoes and rings on both hands steps forward towards a large lady with a wreath in her hair, beauty spots, several rings, a cupid's bow and arrow...
"Social satire: two gentlemen with guns cry to heaven for mercy when they think they have shot a cherub in a graveyard; a man in a smock nearby says "Rot it now, if these had not been your Lononers wha they 'zay be zo knawing I should ha zworn it had ...
Alternative Title:
Murdered cherub, or, The Cockney's distress at the bloody-deed and Cockney's distress at the bloody-deed
"Four young naval officers, two being mere boys and apparently midshipmen (though the scene is unlike the cramped squalor of the midshipmen's berth), dine at a tilting table, from which decanters, a capon, &c., have fallen to the ground. A cabin-boy s...
Alternative Title:
Fetching lee-way, or, One of the comforts of a Channel cruize in November and One of the comforts of a Channel cruize in November
