Swearing to the cutting monster - or a scene in Bow Street.
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815.
- Date:
- 20 May 1790
- Reference:
- 12176i
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Description
The dismayed Charles Fox in handcuffs, implicated by a woman who is displaying her wounded posterior to three Bow Street Justices; representing Fox as 'The 'monster'.
'The monster' was Renwick Williams, a man who attacked women with a knife
Publication/Creation
[London] (18 Old Bond Street) : H. Humphrey, 20 May 1790.
Physical description
1 print : etching ; platemark 25.1 x 35.5 cm
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Lettering
Bears number bottom right : 16
Notes
Title from caption below image.
References note
British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. VI, London 1938, no. 7648
Reference
Wellcome Collection 12176i
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