The Quakers meeting [graphic].

Description

Title: The Quakers meeting [graphic].
Contributor: Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: [28 November 1781]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. Nov. 28th, 1781, by HHumphrey, No. 18 New Bond Street
Abstract: A crowded Quaker meeting hall in which many of the congregation, seated in the pews and stalls or in the gallery, are sleeping or yawning as one man and one woman argue
Description: Title from item.
Initial letters of publisher's name in impreint form a monogram.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Later reversed version of: A short examination of the spirit of Quakerism (1770). Cf. No. 4794 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 33 x 31 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1781
Etchings England London 1781
Material: etching with roulette printed ; and wove paper sepia ink.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
Subject (Topic): Quakers
Friends' meeting houses
Clothing & dress
Subjects: Quakers
Friends' meeting houses > England > 18th century
Clothing & dress > England > 1780-1790
England > 1781
England > London > 1781

Access: Public
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