Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Date of publication from watermark., Printseller's announcement below design: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Originally issued in 1805. Cf. No. 10487 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., and Watermark: John Hall 1825.
Title etched below image., Attributed to Cawse in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Later printing, with Fores's imprint burnished from plate. Cf. No. 9655 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Temporary local subject terms: Horseback riding -- Starvation -- Reference to Hyde Park -- Male dress, 1800., and Watermark: John Hall 1825.
Title etched below image., Place of publication and printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Printseller's announcement below design: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Originally issued in 1804. Cf. no. 10330, Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint., Temporary local subject terms: Westminster Abbey -- Kent Sculptor -- Shakespeare's monument -- Reference to Napoleon., and Watermark: John Hall 1825.
Title below image., Imprint mostly burnished from plate. Printing date from watermark., Printseller's announcement below design: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Pipe -- Tankard., and Watermark: John Hall 1825.
Publisher:
Pubd. Septr. 4th, 1804 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Title etched below image., Imprint statement mostly burnished from plate., Publication information from local card catalog record and from visible trace of imprint statement on print., Four lines of Shakespearean prose inscribed below title: Where be his quidits now? his quillets? his cases? his tenures? and his tricks? ... Hamlet., and Watermark: John Hall 1825.
"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 been an Owl", which in fact it is."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Murdered cherub, or, The Cockney's distress at the bloody-deed and Cockney's distress at the bloody-deed
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue, with imprint statement mostly burnished from plate, of a print originally published 7 November 1804 by S.W. Fores. For the earlier state, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1985,0119.388., Publication date from watermark., Printseller's announcement following title: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the ev[ening]., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Printseller's identification blind stamp located in lower right corner of sheet: S·W·F., and Watermark: John Hall 1825.
