Claiming the flitch of bacon [graphic].

Description

Title: Claiming the flitch of bacon [graphic].
Creator: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Contributor: Laurie & Whittle, publisher.
Published / Created: [8 February 1796]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published 8th Feby. 1796 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Description: Title from item.
Printmaker identified from the original drawing in the Huntington Library.
From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls.
Four lines of text below image: Justice: Well, then you avou you have been married seven years ...
Plate numbered '167' in lower left corner.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Lawyers: justices -- Food: bacon -- Civil uniforms: epaulettes with aglets -- Male dress: aglets -- Customs: claiming the flitch of bacon.
Watermark: (partial) Strasburg bend.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. vi.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 20.2 x 25.2 cm, on sheet 23 x 29 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1796
Etchings England London 1796
Engravings England London 1796
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching & engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1796
England > London > 1796

Access: Public
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