Office of Passports, Calais [graphic].

Description

Title: Office of Passports, Calais [graphic].
Published / Created: [1820?]
Publication Place: England
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title engraved below image.
Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record.
Possibly from: Paris and Dover, or, to and fro, a picturesque excursion : being a bird's-eye notion of a few 'Men and things' / by Roger Book'em.
Plate numbered '6' in upper right corner.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Second sheet with letterpress text attached to print: Office of passports, -Calais. Here a certificate (resembling a passport) is furnished ( -a sufficient pass through the fortified towns) ...
Second sheet attached to print 8 x 17 cm.
Provenance: Auchincloss, vol. xvii.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 11.2 x 15.4 cm, on sheet 18 x 19 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1820
Etchings England 1820
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Calais (France)
Subject (Topic): Emigration and immigration
Immigration stations
Subjects: Calais (France) > Emigration and immigration
Immigration stations
England > 1820

Access: Public
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