print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1861,0518.1133
- Title
- Object: The forty thieves. As sung by Mr Emery, with unbounded applause, at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden
- Description
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Heading to a printed song: 'Written and Sung by Mr. Emery, with unbounded Applause, at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden.' A well-dressed countryman, wearing top-boots and holding his hat, stands as if singing. There is a background of trees. The verses relate his experiences in London in a (supposedly) Yorkshire dialect. He saw 'Forty Thieves' [see BMSat 10459, &c] at 'Common Garden':
'I suppose it were some of them men
As had diddled me out of my money.' 10 March 1807
Etching and letterpress
- Production date
- 1807
- Dimensions
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Height: 172 millimetres (platemark)
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Height: 300 millimetres (whole sheet)
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Width: 233 millimetres
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Width: 240 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VIII, 1947)
Emery had an undisputed supremacy in the representation of rustics. See 'D.N.B.'
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1861
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1861,0518.1133