Elmes, William

A milling match between decks

London, Thos Teg, 111 Cheapside

[1812]

Hand-coloured etching and engraving, with speech above the main characters “Now Jack—Brail up his Peepers or Mungo —will tip you Yankey-dodle-do." and “"I love a bit of hop—Life is ne'ar the worse for it. When in my way do drop—a Fiddle—that’s your sort”, also lettered ‘price one shilling coloured’.

240 by 340mm (9½ by 13½ inches). trimmed to left edge with small loss and to loss upper right corner. Still a presentable scarce iage.

The British Museum has two versions, one dated July 13th 1812, see BM AN77623001,

BM 1935,0522.8.174

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