Title:
The Royal Extinguisher or Gulliver Putting out the Patriots of Lilliput!!!
Creator/Contributor:
Isaac Cruikshank, 1764-1811, British; Samuel William Fores, London, publisher
Date:
1795
Identifier:
1989.21.791
Format:
Print
Etching with hand coloring
Notes:
London publishing firms competed for buyers and audiences by displaying their latest stock of caricatural prints in their
shop windows. [Rand, Snuffing Out Boney] As suggested by this print's inscription, publishers lent or rented select caricatures
to subscribers for an evening or weekend's entertainment. [Patten, 77]
Catalogue Raisonne: Krumbhaar 1025; British Museum 8701
Inscription: Recto, in plate above design, "London Published Decem 1 1795 by SW Fores N3 Piccadilly Folios & Caricatures Lent
out for the Evening" and initialed "IC" in plate near c. of lower edge
Subject:
caricatures; politics