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Iohn Doe & Rich.d Roe. Brothers in law.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: Robert Dighton

After: Robert Dighton
Published by: Robert Dighton
Title
Iohn Doe & Rich.d Roe. Brothers in law.
Description
English: Two men, wearing patched and ragged clothes, stand together. One (left) stands full-face, arms folded, shoulders hunched, staring to the right with fierce despair. From his pocket issues a bulky document: 'By Law I'm Ruin'd quite'. The other (right) stands in profile to the left, his left hand in his coat-pocket from which hang papers inscribed: 'Spent all my Money & Lost my Cause'; 'Mortgage'; 'Officer's Fees'. He looks down with an expression of angry melancholy. 6 November 1796
Hand-coloured etching
Date 1796
date QS:P571,+1796-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 211 millimetres (cropped)
Width: 166 millimetres (cropped)
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
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Accession number
1873,0712.856
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942) Cf. BMSats 8911, 9621, 9639. See Partridge, 'Words, Words, Words!', 1933, p. 66 f.

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The names 'John Doe' and 'Richard Roe' were used as aliases in legal cases where names were either not known, or were to be kept secret.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1873-0712-856
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