Staffordshire courtship!! [graphic]Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker[not before 1 January 1807]eng"A rustic couple in a cottage interior with a bird in a cage, seated at a table on which stands a jug and glass, the woman, in a pink dress, leaning towards the gentleman's dog and exclaiming, "Bless me Mr. Clump what a pretty Dog you have got"; the gentleman, Mr. Clump, in a blue coat and clutching his hat to his breast, replies, "No Miss it beant a Dog - it be one of your own sex"."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier stateTitle etched below image.Later state; former plate number "N. 9" has been replaced, and first half of imprint statement has been burnished from plate.Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier state: Pubd. January 1, 1807, by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1991,0720.32.Printseller's announcement following imprint: NB. Folios of caracatures [sic] lent.Plate numbered "120" in upper right corner.Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2.Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.