Hint to Magistrates, or A Rowland for your Oliver.
George Moutard Woodward (c.1760 - 1809)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1801
Materials
Paper
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Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 292876.4
Summary
Print, etching, Hint to Magistrates, or A Rowland for your Oliver, by George Moutard Woodward (1765 circa - 1809) One of a collection of one hundred and thirty six caricature prints attached to the wall of the Caricature Room. A magistrate in glasses seated at a desk says impatiently to a man in a smock standing with his hat in his ands: "You jolter headed fellow, I'll have you inoculated for stupidity.", to which the other replies "That would be thrown away upon your Worship, for you seem to have had it the natural way.".
Makers and roles
George Moutard Woodward (c.1760 - 1809), engraver (printmaker)