All for love, or, The modern David and Goliah. [graphic].

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Title: All for love, or, The modern David and Goliah. [graphic].
Alternative Title: Modern David and Goliath
Creator: Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
Contributor: Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [December 1806]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. Decr., 1806 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Description: Title from item.
Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue.
Three lines of a quotation following title: "You were also Jupiter a swan for the love of Leda omnipotent love! how near the god drew to the complexion of a goose, when gods have hot backs: what shall poor men do? [Merry Wives of Windsor, v. v.]
Temporary local subject terms: Lighting: Candlestick -- Mirror -- Female Costume: Night dress -- Furniture: Canopied bed -- Male Costume: Night shirt.
Watermark: J. Whatman.
Print numbered '128' with ms. note in modern hand.
Provenance: Seven Gables ; Sept. 1968 ; Sotheby's Lot 238 [Car. II] to Seven gables ; July 2, 1968.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 24.8 x 35 cm, on sheet 26 x 37 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1806
Etchings England London 1806
Watermarks (Paper) J. Whatman
Material: etching with stipple ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Taylor, Michael Angelo, 1757-1834
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
Subjects: Taylor, Michael Angelo, 1757-1834 > Caricatures and cartoons
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1806
England > London > 1806
J. Whatman

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