A touch at the times [graphic].

Description

Title: A touch at the times [graphic].
Contributor: Laurie & Whittle, publisher.
Published / Created: [25 March 1805]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd March 25, 1805 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Description: Title from item.
From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls.
Sheet trimmed to and within plate mark.
Two lines of descriptive text below title: An old woman went to a chandler's shop, to buy a three-farthing candle, but was told they were raised to a penny on account of the war ...
Plate numbered '388' in the lower left corner.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
1 print : etching & roulette with stipple on wove paper ; plate mark 19.8 x 24.8 cm, on sheet 23 x 29 cm.
Watermark: E & P 1804.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xi.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 20.3 x 24.6 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1805
Etchings England London 1805
Watermarks (Paper) John Wise 1804
Material: etching and roulette with stipple ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1805
England > London > 1805
John Wise > 1804

Access: Public
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