[A satire on 'Vice and Folly'] [graphic].

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Title: [A satire on 'Vice and Folly'] [graphic].
Contributor: Heemskerck, Egbert van, 1634 or 1635-1704, artist.
Toms, W. H. approximately 1700-approximately 1750.
Bowles, John, 1701-1779, publisher.
Published / Created: [not before 1768]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for Iohn Bowles at No. 13 in Cornhill
Description: Title from description in the British Museum catalogue for the original version of the print.
Date of publication based on publisher's street address. John Bowles began operating out of No. 13 Cornhill in 1768; see British Museum online catalogue.
Copy in reverse of a print originally published ca. 1730. Cf. No. 1860 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2.
Original print was etched by W.H. Toms after a design by Egbert van Heemskerck II.
Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: While thus the revelling debauchee, Dandles his mistrees on his knee, Th'old bawd is reckoning up the score, Of all that has been spent and more ...
Plate numbered '1' in lower left corner.
Temporary local subject terms: Tavern -- Trades: Tavern-keepers -- Tallies: Tavern-keeper's score board -- Magistrates -- Furniture: Bed with curtains -- Pets -- Containers: Jug -- Glass: Wine bottles.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. i; May 1954;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 28.9 x 25 cm, on sheet 34 x 29 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1768
Etchings England London 1768
Material: etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Interiors
Prostitutes
Military uniforms
Judges
Watchmen
Canopy beds
Birdcages
Doves
Wine
Bottles
Subjects: Interiors
Prostitutes
Military uniforms
Judges
Watchmen
Canopy beds
Birdcages
Doves
Wine
Bottles
England > 1768
England > London > 1768

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