print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1948,0214.597
- Title
- Object: A brace of public guardians.
- Description
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Design in two compartments; the left-hand side, a judge declaiming with eyes directed upwards, while another seated beneath his gaze, in the foreground r, exchanges money with a desperate-looking man; the right-hand side, a night-watchman armed with truncheon and rattle, oblivious to two men putting a ladder to a window at left, and an officer embracing a young woman in a sentry-box to right. 10 July 1800; re-issue from 1796
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1800
- Dimensions
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Height: 380 millimetres
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Width: 536 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Described in Grego (I, p.328) with the additional subtitles 'A court of justice - a watchman', and dated to 15 June 1796.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1948
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1948,0214.597