The watchman of the state [graphic] / IC.

Published/Created:

[London]
Pub. June 20th 1797 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly, London
[1797]

Physical Description:

1 print on laid paper : etching, hand-colored ; sheet 25 x 36 cm.

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires / Mary Dorothy George, v. 7, no. 9024

Notes:

Printseller's statement following the imprint: Folios of caricatures lent for the evening.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: Gothic church -- House of Commons -- House of Lords -- Allusion to the Gunpowder Plot -- Watchmen: Fox as the Westminster watchman -- Opposition members -- Allusion to the secession of the Opposition.
Walter Schatzki ; Jan. 1964 ; Acquisitions no.: 964-1-1-65.
Watermark: Strasburgl lily wtih initials I C V below.

Associated Names:

Cruikshank, Isaac, 1756?-1811? [Printmaker]
Fores, S. W. [Publisher]

Topics:

Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1
Thelwall, John, 1764-1834
Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings -- England -- London -- 1797
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1797
Watermarks (Paper) -- I C V.

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

797.06.20.02+

Orbis Record:

8141700

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr09001

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10941022

PID:

digcoll:950526