The bottle conjurer, from head to foot, without equivocation [graphic].

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Title: The bottle conjurer, from head to foot, without equivocation [graphic].
Contributor: Bickham, George, 1706?-1771, publisher.
Published / Created: Jan. 24th 1749.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Sold in Mays Building, Covent Garden
Description: Title etched above image.
Publisher indentified from address.
Four columns of verse below image: When conjurers [the] quality can bubble, and get their gold w[i]th very little trouble ...
Temporary local subject terms: Haymarket Theatre: burning of stage properties -- Bottles: conjurer in a bottle -- Watch: Military uniforms: Grenadier, Foot Guard -- Sticks -- Placards: Foote gives tea.
Watermark: countermark IV.
Provenance: Alan Thomas for W.S. Lewis, Christie's October 21, 1965, lot 33; November 1965; Major Sir Charles Blackett Collection.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 19.9 x 32.6 cm, on sheet 24 x 38 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1749
Etchings England London 1749
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765
Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773
Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792
Subject (Topic): Bonfires
Butchers
Cats
Chandeliers
Signs (Notices)
Taverns (Inns)
Theater curtains
Subjects: William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765 > Caricatures and cartoons
Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777 > Caricatures and cartoons
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773 > Caricatures and cartoons
Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792 > Caricatures and cartoons
Bonfires
Butchers
Cats
Chandeliers
Signs (Notices)
Taverns (Inns)
Theater curtains
England > 1749
England > London > 1749

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