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    • Author/Creator:Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker.
    • Title:[Morning and in low spirits. A scene in a lock up house] [graphic].
    • Edition:[Proof before aquatint and lettering].
    • Publication:[London] : [Sherwood & Co.], [1825]
    • Physical Description:1 print : etching ; plate mark 15.5 x 25 cm, on sheet 23.4 x 31 cm

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      • Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating)
        Request for Use in the Lewis Walpole Library

      • Call Number: Folio 75 C9 824 no. 17
      • Status:No information available 
      • Notes:Ms. note in pencil on front: Vol. 2, Page 240. Note came originally up to nose, then change in plate. Watermark 1825.
        Watermark: J. Whatman 1825.
      • Provenance:Marlborough Rare Books; April 2016.
        With a stamp on verso: From the collection of Maxine and Joel Spitz, "Trail-Tree" Glencoe. Item no. 44.
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    • Medium:wove paper.
    • Notes:Title, printmaker, and imprint from published state.
      Plate etched for: Westmacott, C.M. English spy. London : Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1825-1826.
      For published state see: No. 15214 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10.
    • Summary:Hayne sits, pen in hand, at a table, nervously facing a burly ruffian holding a large key who proffers a paper headed 'items'. Other debtors sit by the fire or gaze from the padlocked window of the sponging-house. There are pictures of the two chief debtors' prisons, 'Bench' and 'Fleet', and a framed table of 'House Fees. Fire 0 2.6. Candles 0.2.6. Bed 0.10.6. Warming do. 0.1.0. Breakfast 0.7.6. Eggs 0.2.0. Total £1.7.0. See British Museum catalogue.
    • Format:Visual Material
    • Subjects:Debt.
    • Genre/Form:Trial proofs.
      Satires (Visual works)--England--1825.
      Etchings--England--London--1825.
      Watermarks (Paper)--J Whatman--1825.
    • Also listed under:Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, artist.
      Sherwood, Jones, and Co., publisher.
    Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/12878274