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- Title:
- The Bruiser
- Date:
- 1763
- Materials & Techniques:
- Engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 15 3/4 × 12 inches (40 × 30.5 cm), Plate: 15 × 11 1/8 inches (38.1 × 28.3 cm), Image: 13 1/8 × 10 1/4 inches (33.3 × 26 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso in graphite, lower left: "DTYRMLCC"; lower right: "P 215 VII/VII"
Lettered inside image, upper center: "Lye | 1 | Lye | 2 | NB | Lye | 3 | Lye | 8 | Infamous Fallacy | Lye | 10 | Lye | 12 | LYE | 15 | Lye | 20"; lower center: "Great George Street, A List of the | Subscribers to the North Briton. | A New way to Pay old Debts, a | Comedy, by Massenger."; lower right: "£3000"; lower right: "NB"; lower left: "AN | EPISTLE | TO | W. HOGARTH | BY | C. CHURCHILL"; below image, lower center: "The Bruiser, C. Churchill (once the Revd:!) in the Character of a Russian Hercules, Regaling | himself after having Kill'd the Monster Caricatura that so Sorely Gall'd his Virtuous friend, the Heaven born Wilkes. | - But he had a Club this Dragon to Drub, Or he had ne'er don't I warrant ye; - "; lower left: "Design'd and Engraved by Wm. Hogarth Price 1s, 6d"; lower right: "Publish'd according to Act of Parliament August 1. 1763."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Thomas S. Holman, New York, NY
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B2013.33
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- animal art | bear | dog (animal) | tankard
- Access:
- Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:67682
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Ann V. Gunn, The Fire of Fraction: Sources for Paul Sandby's Satires of 1762-63, Print Quarterly Volume XXXIV Number 4 , Print Quarterly, London, December 2017, p. 401, fig. 287, NE1 P765 (LC) (YCBA) [YCBA]