Enjoying a friend [graphic].

Description

Title: Enjoying a friend [graphic].
Creator: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Contributor: Laurie & Whittle, publisher.
Published / Created: [21 August 1798]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published August 21st 1798 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Description: Title from item.
Printmaker identified from the original drawing in the Huntington Library.
From Laurie and Whittle series of drolls.
Two columns of verse below image: Smoak [sic] is the order of the night, this a tete a tete enjoyment , but smoaking is my friends delight / When he has no great employment ...
Plate numbered '222' in lower left corner.
Temporary local subject terms: Furniture: table -- Lighting: chandelier -- Dishes: tankards.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. vii.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 21 x 25 cm, on sheet 24 x 28 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1798
Etchings England London 1798
Engravings England London 1798
Material: etching & engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Smoking
Subjects: Smoking > 18th century
England > 1798
England > London > 1798

Access: Public
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