The branded bully, or, The ass strip'd of the lions skin [graphic] / designd. by Gobbo and executed by Hicko.

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Title: The branded bully, or, The ass strip'd of the lions skin [graphic] / designd. by Gobbo and executed by Hicko.
Alternative Title: Ass strip'd of the lions skin, Ass stripped of the lions skin, and Box lobby hero
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker.
Published / Created: [1786]
Copyright Date: [1786]
Publication Place: [London]
Abstract: "A crowd of eleven amused spectators watches the punishment of a bully, a tall man standing in profile to the left. A much shorter man, fashionably dressed, his arms folded, spits in his face. A man (right) pulls his long queue and kicks him. A fashionably dressed young woman (left) derisively holds out a smelling-bottle towards him; a stout woman holding a basket of fruit offers him one of her oranges. A dog befouls his leg. On each side a laughing man watches the attack through an eye-glass. On the wall is print of an ass wearing a lion's skin inscribed 'The Old Fable Verified'."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description: Printmaker and date from Grego.
Title etched below image; alternative title etched above image: A box lobby hero.
Extent: 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 26.6 x 34.3 cm
Extent of Digitization: Completely digitized
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Etchings--England--London--1786.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1786.
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.

Access: Public
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Citation: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 7064 and Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, pages 190-1