An agreeable group of young gentlemen, otherwise old bachelors turn'd asses [graphic]

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Title: An agreeable group of young gentlemen, otherwise old bachelors turn'd asses [graphic]
Creator: Newton, Richard, 1777-1798, printmaker
Contributor: Laurie & Whittle, publisher.
Published / Created: [22 August 1797]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published 22nd August 1797 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Abstract: "Five elderly men dressed in the fashion of youth."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from item.
One of the series of Laurie & Whittle drolls.
Numbered '196' in lower left of plate.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Old men -- Morning Herald -- Literature: reference to Ovid's Art of Love -- Magnifying glasses -- Pince-nez -- Walking staves -- Duelling: crossed foils -- Placards.
Watermark (partial).
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. vii.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 20 x 24.9 cm, on sheet 23 x 29 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1797
Etchings England London 1797
Engravings England London 1797
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching and engraving with stipple ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Bachelors
Older people
Newspapers
Reading
Staffs (Sticks)
Signs (Notices)
Hand lenses
Mirrors
Subjects: Bachelors
Older people
Newspapers
Reading
Staffs (Sticks)
Signs (Notices)
Hand lenses
Mirrors
England > 1797
England > London > 1797

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