It is astonishing people cant go home sober as they ought to do. Amazing indeed Light your honor. Get out of the way, young scoundrel. You do more harm than good. [graphic]

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Title: It is astonishing people cant go home sober as they ought to do. Amazing indeed Light your honor. Get out of the way, young scoundrel. You do more harm than good. [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Published / Created: [1799?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Ackermann
Abstract: Two images. On the left, two drunk characters comment on 'people' not going home sober. On the right, a young boy is about to be beaten with a walking stick by an elder man whose clothing catches fire from the boy's misdirected torch
Description: Title from text (dialogue) above each image.
Fragment of a horizontal border from an unidentified print from the series: Borders for rooms. Designed by Woodward, etched by Rowlandson and published by Ackermann in 1799-1800. See British Museum Catalogue, nos. 9488-9492.
Lewis Walpole Library: First image only, mounted together with three other images from other Borders plates.
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 10 x 9 cm.
Mounted to 27 x 22 cm, together with two other images from other Bordes plates.
Provenance: Suckling; May 1957.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 9 x 16 cm.
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 799.00.00.13 Impression 3

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1799
Etchings England London 1799
Watermarks (Paper) J Whatman 1810
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1799
England > London > 1799
J Whatman > 1810

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Identifiers

Orbis Record: 8178376
Object ID (OID): 10941279