As scaling, love impell'd, a lofty wall, One luckless night, he fell in vast alarm, But caught a beam, and haply broke his fall, For which his fall retorting, broke his arm (from, "Steamers v. Stages; or, Andrew and His Wife, an Aquatic Excursion by Steam")
Object type: Print
Department: Drawings and Prints
Artist: Isaac Robert Cruikshank|Thomas Mosses
Artist bio: British, London 1789–1856 London|British, active 1828–61
Artist role: Artist|Engraver
Artist nationality: British|British
Date: 1830
Medium: Wood-engraving
Dimensions: Sheet: 4 1/8 × 6 13/16 in. (10.5 × 17.3 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917
Accession year: 1917