House-breaking before sun-set [graphic] / PR ; JS.

Published/Created:

[London]
Published Jany. 6t 1789 by R. Butters, 79 Fleet Stt
[6 January 1789]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching & drypoint on laid paper; plate mark 32.7 x 25 cm., on sheet 40 x 28 cm.

Notes:

Title etched below image.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: Treasury -- Pick axes -- Crow-bars -- Padlocks -- Swords -- Masks -- Guns -- Setting sun -- Crowns -- Watchman's lanterns -- Allusion to George III -- Emblems: King's monogram on the padlock.
Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966; Acquisitions no.: 966-12-5-134.
Watermark: Fleur de lis on crowned shield, with initials G R below.
Mounted to 44 x 29 cm.

Variant Titles:

Housebreaking before sunset

Topics:

Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806

Language:

English

Genre:

Drypoints -- England -- London -- 1789
Engravings -- England -- London -- 1789
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1789

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

789.01.06.01+

Orbis Record:

7716250

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr06591

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10731077

PID:

digcoll:553537