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Melville (in Highland costume) bleeds Neptune whilst Trotter holds a bowl to catch the guineas which flow from the incision; satirizing Trotter's embezzlement of public funds and Melville 's alleged connivance. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1805.
Lettering: Bleeding Neptune or a Scotch experiment!!
Creator
- Isaac Cruikshank
- Isaac Cruikshank
Type of item
- Caricatures
Creator
- Isaac Cruikshank
- Isaac Cruikshank
Type of item
- Caricatures
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Rights
- Credit: Wellcome Collection
Creation date
- 1805
- 1805
Source
- V0011315
Identifier
- V0011315
- b1160370
- ICV No 11578
- p96hbhbe
Year
- 1805
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2019-06-09T11:31:01.008Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2019-06-09T11:31:01.008Z