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Author/Creator:Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
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Title:Swearing to the cutting monster, or, A scene in Bow Street [graphic].
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Publication:[London] : Pub. May 20th, 1790, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street, [20 May 1790]
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Manufacture: [printed 1851]
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Physical Description:1 print : etching & drypoint ; plate mark 25.1 x 34.8 cm, on sheet 27 x 36 cm
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Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings (Non-Circ)
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Call Number: 790.05.20.01.2+
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Status:Not Checked Out
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Provenance:Suckling; November 1958.
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Digital version
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Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings (Non-Circ)
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Medium:wove paper.
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Local Notes:Temporary local subject terms: Bow Street Justices -- Symbols: scales of Justice -- Wright, Sampson, fl. 1790 -- Bond, John, fl. 1790 -- Allusion to William Renwick, 'The Monster.'
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Notes:Title etched at bottom of image.
Printmaker from Briitsh Museum catalogue.
Date of printing based on that of Bohn's Suppressed plates.
Plate from: Bohn, ii, 16, Suppressed plates.
Numbered '16' in lower right corner.
Reissue, with added plate numbering. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 7648.
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Variant and related titles:Scene in Bow Street
- Format:Visual Material
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Subjects:Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806--Caricatures and cartoons.
Addington, William, Sir, -1811--Caricatures and cartoons.
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Genre/Form:Satires (Visual works)--England--1790.
Drypoints--England--London--1790.
Etchings--England--London--1790.
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Also listed under:Bohn, Henry G. (Henry George), 1796-1884, publisher.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/7746025