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The Frenchmen in Billingsgate
Title
The Frenchmen in Billingsgate [graphic].
Publication
[Alnwick] : Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick, [between 1812 and 1817]
Physical Description
1 print : etching with stipple ; sheet 17 x 25 cm
Medium
wove paper.
Notes
Title from item.
Publication date from Isaac.
Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Summary
A French woman engages in a fist fight with a startled customer as his friend looks on in horror. Her hook-nosed colleague sits at a table and extends an offer of a shellfish (lobster?) the brawlers.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 12, 2008
References
Isaac, P. Some Alnwick caricatures, no. 17
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1812.
Etchings - England - Alnwick - 1812.
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