Ridotto al' fresco, or, The humours of Spring Gardens [graphic].

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Title: Ridotto al' fresco, or, The humours of Spring Gardens [graphic].
Alternative Title: Humours of Spring Gardens
Contributor: Foster, George, active 1737-1739, publisher.
Published / Created: [1740?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for & sold by Geo. Foster at the White Horse opposite the north gate in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Description: Title from item.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
"Price. 6d."
Dickinson Imprint from earlier state in lower left corner, blacked out on plate but partially legible.
Three columns of verse below image: Here, may the wand'ring eye with pleasure see both knaves and fools in borrow'd shapes agree ...
Copy, with English verse only, of No. 1635 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2.
Temporary local subject terms: Court manners: bowing -- Spring Gardens.
Mounted to 29 x 45 cm.
Provenance: Print Shop; Oct. 1957;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 25 x 41 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1740
Etchings England London 1740
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Chandeliers
Masks
Masquerades
Subjects: Chandeliers
Masks
Masquerades
England > 1740
England > London > 1740

Access: Public
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