This is a pictorial initial that decorates the start of a chapter (the gun forms a ‘P’ that starts the word ‘Pardon’ – a curious word given the subject).
Dalziel after Hugh Rowley, illustration for Rowley, Gamosagammon; or Hints on Hymen (London: John Camden Hotten, [1870]). Dalziel Archive Vol. XXVII (1870), British Museum reg. no. 1913,0415.188, print no. 1607.
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