Comfort in a hurricane [graphic].

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Title: Comfort in a hurricane [graphic].
Contributor: Laurie & Whittle, publisher.
Published / Created: [12 May 1803]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd May 12, 1803 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Abstract: Two men and a dog in a row boat in rough water
Description: Title etched below image.
Plate numbered '298' in lower right corner.
From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls.
Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton.
Three lines of caption below title: Bless me how we are tossed about, I never saw such rough weather in my life; I hope the boat will not upset; Pray ferry-man has there been many people lost in crossing here? "Lost, did you say! No I never knew of any one to be lost there's my brother he was drowned here last week, but we found him next day.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xi.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 20 x 24.9 cm, on sheet 23 x 28 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1803
Engravings England London 1803
Stipple engravings England London 1803
Etchings England London 1803
Material: etching and engraving with stipple ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Drowning
Dogs
Ferries
Rowboats
Subjects: Drowning
Dogs
Ferries
Rowboats
England > 1803
England > London > 1803

Access: Public
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