The Morning News.The Rabble gather round the Man of News / And listen with their mouths. / Some tell, some hear, some judge of news, some make it, / And he that lyes most, is most beleiv'd.
Bretherton f. [after H.W. Bunbury]
Published as the Act directs 10th December 1772 By J. Bretherton No.134 New Bond Street
Etching. 260 x 240mm (10¼ x 9½"). Edged with brown tape on reverse.
One of many satires on the absorption of the common people in politics to the neglect of their own business, emphasised by the dog helping itself to a plate of food on a stump. A later version of this satire by Rowlandson names Bunbury as designer.
BM Satires 5086.
[Ref: 51700] £160.00
Published as the Act directs 10th December 1772 By J. Bretherton No.134 New Bond Street
Etching. 260 x 240mm (10¼ x 9½"). Edged with brown tape on reverse.
One of many satires on the absorption of the common people in politics to the neglect of their own business, emphasised by the dog helping itself to a plate of food on a stump. A later version of this satire by Rowlandson names Bunbury as designer.
BM Satires 5086.
[Ref: 51700] £160.00