The murder'd cherub, or, The Cockney's distress at the bloody-deed [graphic].[1825?]eng"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 stateTitle 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.