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Robert Cruikshank
1789-1856
By St Peter this is no sham, or, A new cut for the groom of the stool / I R C fecit.
London : Pubd April 1821 by G Humphrey St James's Street, [1821]
etching, hand colored
image: 361 x 259 mm; trimmed sheet: 385 x 276 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.487
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows James Webster-Wedderburn publicly assaulting Lord Petersham with a whip in front of a group of amused bystanders. Wedderburn, raising his whip, is saying: "What I have caught you have Master Sham Peter how dare you attempt to injure my Wifes character by saying youn play my part as well as I can, you boasting lying Dandy...take that! and that! and that!!!" Petersham is exclaiming: "Me Sir! you labour under a Mistake I am a Gentleman and will resent this Insult some other time."
Associated names
Humphrey, G., fl. ca. 1820, publisher.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
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