Avaricious lovers [graphic]

Description

Title: Avaricious lovers [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Hooper & Wigstead, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 August 1797]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd Augst 1, 1797, by Hooper & Wigstead ; Printed for Hooper & Wigstead, No. 212 High Holborn
Description: Title from item.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark at bottom and top.
Eight lines of verse in two columns below title: Young Cupid of all makes a prize ...
One from the series of eleven plates "Love in Caricature."
One of six 'Lovers' prints published by Rowlandson in 1797, recorded in Grego in 1798.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Couples -- Vices: avarice -- Furniture: chairs -- Money: guineas -- Scales: balances.
Provenance: Print Shop ; October 1959.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 26.9 x 19.6 cm, on sheet 27 x 22 cm
Language: English

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