Erit ubi poenas det procax audacia [graphic].

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Title: Erit ubi poenas det procax audacia [graphic].
Published / Created: [approximately 1792]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Satire with a woman holding on to a young man charging down an urban street in a carriage drawn by four horses, with a woman and two boys protecting them with weapons; printed below in letterpress five columns of mock-heroic verse describing the event."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from text within image.
Approximate date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record.
Five columns of verse in letterpress below image, arranged in two numbered cantos: Canto I. Never traced I valour's perfect line, 'till in a buck, competitor of mine ...
Description based on imperfect impression; sheet mutilated in lower left corner with some loss of text, and sheet trimmed within plate mark on two edges.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Mythology: Allusion to Ajax -- Allusion to Hector -- Literature: Quotation from Gay, John, 1685-1732 -- Phaetons -- Latin expressions -- Blunderbuss guns.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. iv.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 404 x 482 mm
Language: Latin
English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1792
Etchings England London 1792
Material: etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827
Frederica Charlotte Ulrica Catherina, Princess, Duchess of York, 1767-1820
Subject (Topic): Elopements
Firearms
Servants
Carriages & coaches
Subjects: Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827 > Caricatures and cartoons
Frederica Charlotte Ulrica Catherina, Princess, Duchess of York, 1767-1820 > Caricatures and cartoons
Elopements
Firearms
Servants
Carriages & coaches
England > 1792
England > London > 1792

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