Q [graphic].Lane, Theodore, 1800-1828, printmaker1820.eng"Irradiated banners carried by four cherubic little boys, followed by a youth blowing a newsboy's horn, are watched by four men who register despair. They are clustered round a decayed post topped by a crown, and are 'Dr. Slop' (Stoddart) and 'Treasury scribes'. A demon (left) beckons them from a cloud. The banners are 'Times' (the largest), 'Examiner', 'Traveller' (an evening paper), and 'News' (like the 'Examiner', a Sunday paper). P. 17: Q, for the qualms that arose when they heard, Hard blows in the contest, they challenged were feared. ..."--British Museum online catalogueTitle etched below image.Alternative title from letterpress text on facing page of the bound work.Attributed to Theodore Lane in the British Museum catalogue.Sheet trimmed within plate mark.Plate from: Rosco. Horrida bella. London : G. Humphrey, 1820.Mounted on page 11 of: George Humphrey shop album.Mounted opposite the sheet of corresponding letterpress text that would have faced the plate in the bound work.