Dick the butcher & Smith the weaver seizing the Clerk of Chatham [graphic].

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Title: Dick the butcher & Smith the weaver seizing the Clerk of Chatham [graphic].
Alternative Title: Dick the butcher and Smith the weaver seizing the Clerk of Chatham
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Published / Created: [approximately 1800]
Publication Place: England
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title from item.
Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark at bottom resulting in loss of imprint.
Copy of a print by J. Coles, published by Thomas Macklin in 1795, after a drawing by H.W. Bunbury.
Six lines of text from the play in two columns below image: Smith. The clerk of Chatham: he can write and read / and cast accompt. Cade. O monstrous! ...
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Literature: Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part 2, iv.2 -- Street scenes -- Trades: Butchers -- Weavers -- Clerks -- Writing implements: Ink bottle on ribbon -- Weapons: Pikes -- Executions: Public hangings.
Watermark: CMD.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, v.ix; May 1954;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 26 x 33 cm
Language: English

Genre: Illustrations
Satires (Visual works) England 1800
Etchings England London 1800
Watermarks (Paper) CMD
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Subject (Topic): Axes
Spears
Hangings (Executions)
Gallows
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Illustrations
Axes
Spears
Hangings (Executions)
Gallows
England > 1800
England > London > 1800
CMD

Access: Public
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