The transit of Mercury [graphic]

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Title: The transit of Mercury [graphic]
Creator: Eckstein, John, active 1787-1838, printmaker
Published / Created: [between 1800 and 1810?]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "A group of men crowd around a large punch-bowl, peering through telescopes at an owl perched on the inn-sign of a sun."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from item.
Date from British Museum online catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark at the bottom.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Astronomical observations -- Parsons -- Glass: wine bottles -- Smoking -- Dishes: punch bowls.
Watermark: Cansell 1824.
Evidence of erasure of text below title.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xiv, p.178.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 35 x 26 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1795
Aquatints England London 1795
Etchings England London 1795
Watermarks (Paper) Cansell 1824
Material: etching & aquatint ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Clergy
Monkeys
Owls
Signs (Notices)
Smoking
Telescopes
Subjects: Clergy
Monkeys
Owls
Signs (Notices)
Smoking
Telescopes
England > 1795
England > London > 1795
Cansell > 1824

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