Rare antique hand-colored print Symptoms of the Shop Plate #9 dated 1801, London

(SHIPPING IS AVAILABLE WITHIN THE USA ONLY, ONLY DOMESTIC SHIPPING WITHIN THE US. Thank you) Plate #9 of a series of 12 hand-colored satirical engravings on wove paper drawn by London-based artist George Moutard Woodward (1760 or 1765 - 1809) and etched by printmaker Francis Sansom (active between 1780 and 1810), titled “Symptoms of the Shop”. Left, right and top margins were cut off, leaving only the bottom margin with this text "Pub. June 1st 1801 by S.W. Fores No.50 Piccadilly Prints and Drawings lent on the plan of a Library Folio's of Caricature lent out for the Evening." / Symptoms of the Shop" / "Drawn by G. Woodward Etched by F. Sansom". The plate numbe,r “Plate 9”, was written in the top right corner (missing). Each plate depicted two persons engaged in humorous wordplay relating to the characteristics of a trade or calling. Here, an officer is courting a lady, using an abundance of military metaphors: “Most adorable Bellona - your eyes like balls of fire, spring a mine upon my outer-works, & though I have gone through a campaign of nine years in endeavouring to bring you to an honorable capitulation, yet still I am happy in returning to the attack, hoping that by perseverance & industry in my profession I might yet be able to storm your bulwarks - break down the fortifications of coy reluctance, & by means of Cupid's scaling ladder force you to surrender at discretion." Much more information available, please contact me).