The learned A-s, or, A legal construction of rogues and vagrants [graphic].

[London] : Pub. June 8, 1817, by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, [8 June 1817]

1 print : etching ; plate mark 24.8 x 36 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 42 cm

wove paper

Bound in the set of five volumes, formerly owned by Henry Arthur Johnstone. Binding: red morocco with his initials stamped in gold on the front cover in a shield with crossed swords and three floral stamps above and one below; also four floral stamps on spine with volume number and spine title in gold: The caricature magazine. Leather endpapers with his ex libris blind stamped on front flyleaf -- a boat with large sail, with a cutout in the shape of the sun in upper left.

"Two barristers in wig and gown fight furiously with umbrellas. The aggressor (right), with outstretched left fist, rushes at his enemy with a closed umbrella which terminates in a long spike. The other, Adolphus, with legs wide astride, uses an open umbrella; his brief-bag swings from his arm. From a door on the right a constable rushes forward, holding out his crowned staff. The lower part of a staircase is on the left. Above the combatants: 'Full often we're Told & true it may be That two of a Trade can never agree'."--British Museum online catalogue.

English

July 27, 2016

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 9, no. 12916