They told me a crooked gun would shoot round the corner, but I'm aftraid I have bent mine too much [graphic].

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Title: They told me a crooked gun would shoot round the corner, but I'm aftraid I have bent mine too much [graphic].
Contributor: Hodgson, Orlando, publisher.
Published / Created: [approximately 1838]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. by O. Hodgson, 111 Fleet Street
Abstract: Two men holding shotguns converse in front of a wall. The man on the right holds a gun with an extremely bent barrel; he looks worriedly back over his shoulder at his own posterior, which is smoking and riddled with buckshot
Description: Title from dialogue below image.
Date of publication based on publisher's street address. Orlando Hodgson is known to have operated out of 111 Fleet Street in 1838; see British Museum online catalogue.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 17.8 x 25.9 cm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1838
Lithographs England London 1838
Material: lithograph ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Rifles
Hunting accidents
Walls
Subjects: Rifles
Hunting accidents
Walls
England > 1838
England > London > 1838
Maidment, Brian > Donor