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Erit ubi poenas det procax audacia
Title
Erit ubi poenas det procax audacia [graphic].
Publication
[London?] : [publisher not identified], [approximately 1792]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; sheet 404 x 482 mm
Medium
wove paper.
Local Notes
Temporary local subject terms: Mythology: Allusion to Ajax -- Allusion to Hector -- Literature: Quotation from Gay, John, 1685-1732 -- Phaetons -- Latin expressions -- Blunderbuss guns.
Notes
Title from text within image.
Approximate date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record.
Five columns of verse in letterpress below image, arranged in two numbered cantos: Canto I. Never traced I valour's perfect line, 'till in a buck, competitor of mine ...
Description based on imperfect impression; sheet mutilated in lower left corner with some loss of text, and sheet trimmed within plate mark on two edges.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Summary
"Satire with a woman holding on to a young man charging down an urban street in a carriage drawn by four horses, with a woman and two boys protecting them with weapons; printed below in letterpress five columns of mock-heroic verse describing the event."--British Museum online catalogue.
Format
Images
Language
Latin; English
Added to Catalog
May 12, 2011
Subjects
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1792.
Etchings - England - London - 1792.
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