Bachelors' hall [graphic]

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Title: Bachelors' hall [graphic]
Creator: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Contributor: Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [30 April 1791]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. Aprill [sic] 30, 1791, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Description: Title from item.
Sheet trimmed resulting in loss of plate mark on top and sides of illustration.
Illustration to ballad Bachelors' Hall written and composed by Dibdin for his entertainment called The Oddities. The text of the ballad is printed below the plate.
Publisher's advertisement at the bottom of sheet: Just published, price 6d. plain, 1 s. coloured, The Patient Parson Forgetting His Text, or The Hogs in the Ale-Cellar, Poll and My Partner Joe, Let Us All Be Unhappy Together, The Greenwich Pensioner, Mrs. Thrale's Three Warnings, and many other esteemed songs and pieces, by Dibdin and others. In Fores's exhibition, No. 3 Piccadilly, may be seen the compleatest collection of caricature prints and drawings in Europe. Admittance one shilling.
Temporary local subject terms: Huntsmen -- Buildings: country houses -- Architectural details: outdoor stairway to country house -- Male costume: riding costume, 1791 -- Bachelors -- Horse whips -- Hunting horns.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. v.
Extent: 1 print : design 17.3 x 23.2 cm, on sheet 39 x 25 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1791
Etchings England London 1791
Ballads England London 1791
Publishers' advertisements England London 1791
Material: etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Horseback riding
Hunting
Hunting dogs
Musical entertainments
Subjects: Horseback riding
Hunting
Hunting dogs
Musical entertainments
England > 1791
England > London > 1791

Access: Public
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