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Marks's new combat in the Cataract of the Ganges [print] / Marks fect.

Accession number
PML 143905.2
Creator
Marks, John Lewis, printmaker, publisher.
Published
[London] : Pub. by J.L. Marks, 17 Artillery St. Bishopsgate, [between 1814 and 1830?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
Suggested date range of publication based on documantation and examples of dated prints issued by Marks with the 17 Artillery St. address included in the imprint.
In lower left corner, "No. 13"; at lower right, "Pr. 1d. Plain."
Forms part of a bound album containing a collection of prints published by J.L. Marks and the later firm of S. Marks and Sons (see "John Lewis Marks album," PML 143905).
Library's copy partially trimmed within plate mark.
Description
1 print : etching with stipple and roulette ; sheet: 193 x 243 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Illustrating a scene from the 1823 melodrama "Cataract of the Ganges, or, the Rajah's Daughter", by W.T. Moncrieff (also known as William Thomas Thomas); print shows three men armed with sabres in combat.
Classification
Department