Modern antiques [graphic].

Description

Title: Modern antiques [graphic].
Contributor: Prattent, Thomas, active 1780-1796, publisher.
Published / Created: [20 September 1793]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd as the act directs, Sept. 20, 1793, by T. Prattent, 46 Cloth Fair, West Smithfield
Abstract: An elderly antiquarian guides a fashionably dressed young lady and gentleman through a natural history museum, unaware that the gentleman is passing a letter to the lady. In and around the cases are exotic animals, insects, reptiles, and a mummy
Description: Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Walter Schatzki; August 1969;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 20 x 25 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1793
Etchings England London 1793
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Alligators
Birds
Butterflies
Courtship
Couples
Frogs
Galleries & museums
Insects
Mummies
Scholars
Snakes
Specimens
Subjects: Alligators
Birds
Butterflies
Courtship
Couples
Frogs
Galleries & museums
Insects
Mummies
Scholars
Snakes
Specimens
England > 1793
England > London > 1793

Access: Public
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