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Eccentricities   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Published by: William Spooner

Printed by: William Kohler
Title
Eccentricities
Description
English: No.I: a policeman pulls at a drunk slumped against a lamp-post. c. 1840
Hand-coloured lithograph
Date circa 1840
date QS:P571,+1840-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 321 millimetres
Width: 255 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1952,0517.88
Notes

The first of a series of at least 14 prints (most are in the BM). The artist is not given but may be Henry Heath, who made other prints for Spooner at this period signed with hs monogram.

The metrolpolitan police force founded by Robert Peel began to patrol the streets of London in September 1829; the restraint of troublesome drunkards was one of their primary roles.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1952-0517-88
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