Tyger and his master [graphic].Collings, Samuel, printmaker[February 1794]eng"A young man in profile to the right, with a knotted bludgeon under his arm, holds a fierce mastiff by the collar. This collar, being inscribed 'Hamil[ton]', shows that the duke is Douglas, 8th Duke (1756-95), Duke of Brandon in the English peerage. He has cropped hair and wears the dress of the young blood of 1791, with the star of the Thistle."--British Museum online catalogueTitle engraved below image.Text above image: Engraved for the Carlton House magazine.Printmaker from earlier state with title, 'The Ruffian Duke', and lettered ''Attic Miscellany.' and 'Annabal Scratch fecit' issue in 1791.Caricatures published under the pseudonym Annibal Scratch have been attributed to Samuel Collings.Cf. No. 7958 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.