The honor of precedence [graphic].

Description

Title: The honor of precedence [graphic].
Contributor: Laurie & Whittle, publisher.
Published / Created: [22 October 1804]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd Octr. 22nd, 1804, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Abstract: "Three wives of tradesmen dispute their precedence on a visit."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Plate numbered '370' in the lower left corner.
From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls.
Four lines of descriptive text below title: Three ladies mostly on a visit, a grocer's wife, a cheesemonger's, and a tobacconist's, who perhaps stood more upon the punctilios of precedence than some of their betters ...
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, Vol. XI.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 20 x 24.8 cm, on sheet 23 x 28 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1804
Etchings England London 1804
Watermarks (Paper) John Wise 1804
Material: etching with stipple ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1804
England > London > 1804
John Wise > 1804

Access: Public
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