Defrauding the customs, or, Shipping of goods not fairly entered [graphic]Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker[not before 1 March 1815]eng"A scene near the sea. Two naval officers carry off two plump and pretty girls and run towards a boat, where two sailors wait (left). They are followed by a fat old woman, screaming furiously and brandishing an umbrella. She runs (right to left) at the head of a flock of schoolgirls, mature young women, two and two, who watch their captured companions with excited envy. They emerge from a shady lane where a signpost points (right) to 'Mrs Crostich's Boarding School for Young Ladies'. In the foreground (right) a grotesque lean and elderly man has fallen in the chase, losing his hat and wig, but clenching a fist, and clutching his cane in frantic anger. A dog joins in the chase."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier stateTitle etched below image.Later state; former plate number "344" has been replaced with a new number, and imprint statement has been completely burnished from plate.Publisher from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue.Date of publication based on imprint on earlier state: Pubd. 1st March 1815. Cf. No. 12645 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9.Plate numbered "246" in upper right corner.Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4.Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 289-90.1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 22.5 x 32.7 cm.Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of plate number.Watermark, partially trimmed: [S]mith & Allnutt.Mounted on leaf 36 of volume 13 of 14 volumes.