The fashionable advertiser

Description

Title: The fashionable advertiser
Contributor: Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [10 February 1787]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub'd Feby. 10th, 1787, by S.W. Fores at the Caricature Warehouse, No.3 Piccadilly
Abstract: "A half length portrait of Major Topham, directed to the right and wearing a round hat. He frowns disconsolately. Behind him on the wall is a newspaper inscribed 'The Worlb' [sic, i.e. The World], a comb and pair of curling-tongs, and (on a table) an inkstand with pens."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides, resulting in loss of text at beginning and end of imprint. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum.
Provenance: Schatzki; July 1972;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 85 x 147 mm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1787
Etchings England London 1787
Material: etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Topham, Edward, 1751-1820
Subject (Topic): Hairdressing
Subjects: Hairdressing
Topham, Edward, 1751-1820 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1787
England > London > 1787

Access: Public
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