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Honorable Situations the Tipperary Duellists or Margate heroes have hitherto stood in   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: William Dent

Published by: James Aitken
Title
Honorable Situations the Tipperary Duellists or Margate heroes have hitherto stood in
Description
English: A design in two compartments:


'A CERTAIN WAY TO DETECT AND SECURE A LOADED DIE.'
Two men throw dice, one seated behind the table, the other standing (right), dice-box in hand. A man in profile to the right, striding forward, pins the right hand of the seated man to the table, with a fork, saying, "There's the Die". The suspect, who wears a cocked hat and regimentals, raises his left hand, shouting "Upon my honor". His opponent says "Dam your honor". Above their heads are various objects: a pair of bare legs, shaded, probably to indicate blacklegs, are inscribed respectively 'Cl Mc' [McCarthy] and 'M.S.'; a tankard and dish are 'Massy Plate', the other objects are inscribed 'Stack of Hay' and 'Pole of Wood' (a pole), evidently to show that the detected cheat poses falsely as a man of property.

'A CERTAIN WAY TO MAKE GOOD OUT OF EVIL.'
A tall, fashionably dressed man wearing a cocked hat (left) steps towards a stout and distressed man (right) who holds a large bag inscribed 'Composition'; both are in profile. The former says, "Prosecution and Pillory - by Jasus for your Son attempted so and so, but if you do so and so, why then I shant think him so unnatural and so you understand so and so." The other answers, "Be pacified - be softened - be husht and let my Son come home and you shall have some weighty reasons - you shall be a Colonel brave Sir." Over the head of the tall man is a picture of Somerset House; over that of the other one of Hounslow showing a large building which may represent the powder-mills there. 20 October 1790


Etching with hand-colouring
Depicted people Associated with: Mr. Leeson
Date 1790
date QS:P571,+1790-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 245 millimetres
Width: 349 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.5966
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) Compartment 1: This method of detecting a cheat was used on 'Baron' Newman of Bath, see BMSats 4651, 4836.

Compartment 2: The two duellists, Col. McCarthy and Leeson, see BMSat 7744, are respectively depicted as a fraudulent gamester and a blackmailer.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5966
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