Design composed of four vignette images, each providing a comic visual pun on the name of the religous sect mentioned in the caption below. The "Jumpers" jump over a stream while being chased by goats; the "Quakers" cower and pray in fright as a donke...
Description:
Title from text centered above images, and from numbering in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Pubd. by William Cole, 10, Newgate Street
Subject (Topic):
Religious groups, Goats, Jumping, Streams, Fear, Donkeys, Fences, Dogs, Fighting, Watchmen, and Lanterns
"A night scene, lit by a crescent moon. Men and women flee in abject terror from a menacing figure draped in a sheet, apparently on stilts, with glaring eyeballs, long beard, and talons on its outstretched hands. One of the fugitives is on a terrified...
A scene in the Abbey Cloisters. Westminster schoolboys in cap and gown terrify a poor woman and a watchman by turnip-headed ghosts, and by one of their number on stilts who is masked and smoking a flaming pipe. Another, seated on a lamp-bracket, disc...
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from published state.
Publisher:
Sherwood, Jones & Co.
Subject (Topic):
Boys, Fear, Couples, School children, and Watchmen
