A dasher!, or, The road to ruin in the west [graphic]

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Title: A dasher!, or, The road to ruin in the west [graphic]
Alternative Title: Road to ruin in the west
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Published / Created: [5 November 1799]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. Novr. 5, 1799, by R. Ackermann, N. 101 Strand
Description: Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Cited in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v.7, as a companion print to no. 9466.
Temporary local subject terms: Vehicles: dasher -- Military: cavalry officers -- Placards -- Playbills -- Literature: Reference to Bon Ton by David Garrick (1717-1779) -- Reference to A New Way to Pay Old Debts by Philip Massinger (1583-1640) -- Reference to Bow Street -- Dress: driving dress, 1799 -- Parks: reference to Rotten Row, Hyde Park -- Prisons: reference to King's Bench -- Offices: sheriff's officer's office -- Expressions of speech: 'road to ruin'.
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 23 x 34.7 cm, on sheet 24 x 37 cm.
Printmaker's name burnished from plate.
Watermark: E & P 1797.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. viii.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 21.6 x 33 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1799
Etchings England London 1799
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1799
England > London > 1799
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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