The Midnight Magistrate. Eng.d for the Wesl:r: Mag: The Candle shines out when bright Phoebus is gone...Is Dispatch'd with a Charge to Decoy in somemore.
[after Egbert van Heemskerck].
[Published by Fielding & Walker, Decr 1. 1799.]
Etching. 204 x 222mm. 8 x 8¾". Cut, missing publication line.
A satirical scene of the interior of a watchhouse, with monkey watchmen bringing a cat couple they have arrested before a constable behaving like a magistrate, watched by an owl on the door. A satire on "hireling constables", hired replacements for parishioners who were bound to serve annually without pay
BM Satires: 5618.
[Ref: 15922] £160.00
[Published by Fielding & Walker, Decr 1. 1799.]
Etching. 204 x 222mm. 8 x 8¾". Cut, missing publication line.
A satirical scene of the interior of a watchhouse, with monkey watchmen bringing a cat couple they have arrested before a constable behaving like a magistrate, watched by an owl on the door. A satire on "hireling constables", hired replacements for parishioners who were bound to serve annually without pay
BM Satires: 5618.
[Ref: 15922] £160.00