Hob carrying Mr. Friendley's letter to Mrs. Flora. [graphic] / Plate I.

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Title: Hob carrying Mr. Friendley's letter to Mrs. Flora. [graphic] / Plate I.
Creator: Du Bosc, Claude, 1684-1745?, printmaker
Contributor: Laguerre, Louis, 1663-1721, artist.
Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794, publisher.
Dogget, Thomas, -1721.
Published / Created: [1760?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller, near Serjeants Inn, Fleet Street
Description: Title from item.
Publication date inferred from publisher's address.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Two columns of text on either side of the title: [...] she terrible law when it fastens it's [sic] paw, on a poor man, it gripes 'till he's undone ...
First plate in the series: The humours of Hob at the country wake in the opera of Flora. Other plates in this series do not have series title.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials GR below.
Lower left corner torn off resulting in loss of artist's name and some of the text below image.
Provenance: Dramatis Personae ; May 1996 ;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 24 x 31 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1760
Engravings England London 1760
Etchings England London 1760
Watermarks (Paper) G. R.
Material: etching & engraving ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1760
England > London > 1760
G. R.

Access: Public
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