The murder'd cherub, or, The Cockney's distress at the bloody-deed [graphic].

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Title: The murder'd cherub, or, The Cockney's distress at the bloody-deed [graphic].
Alternative Title: Murdered cherub, or, The Cockney's distress at the bloody-deed
Cockney's distress at the bloody-deed
Contributor: Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [1825?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: S.W. Fores
Abstract: "Social satire: two gentlemen with guns cry to heaven for mercy when they think they have shot a cherub in a graveyard; a man in a smock nearby says "Rot it now, if these had not been your Lononers wha they 'zay be zo knawing I should ha zworn it had been an Owl", which in fact it is."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description: Title etched below image.
Reissue, with imprint statement mostly burnished from plate, of a print originally published 7 November 1804 by S.W. Fores. For the earlier state, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1985,0119.388.
Publication date from watermark.
Printseller's announcement following title: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the ev[ening].
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 24.6 x 35 cm, on sheet 26 x 39 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1804
Etchings England London 1825
Watermarks (Paper) John Hall 1825
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Cemeteries
Owls
Subjects: Cemeteries
Owls
England > 1804
England > London > 1825
John Hall > 1825

Access: Public
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