Not at home, or, A disappointed dinner hunter! [graphic].

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Title: Not at home, or, A disappointed dinner hunter! [graphic].
Alternative Title: Disappointed dinner hunter
Contributor: Marks, John Lewis, publisher.
Published / Created: [1822?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published by J.L. Marks, 17 Artillery Street, Bishopgate
Abstract: A gentleman on the doorstop of a fashionable townhouse is turned away by a black footman in livery who tells him, "Massa not at home!" Two street vendors approach from behind, one of whom offers him tankard with a head of foam and the other further in the distance carries a tray of steaming plates. To the left is a lamp post
Description: Title etched below image.
Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Watermark: 1825.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xvii.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 15.3 x 17.6 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1822
Aquatints England London 1822
Etchings England London 1822
Watermarks (Paper) 1825
Material: aquatint and etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Black people
Food
Servants
Street vendors
Subjects: Black people
Food
Servants
Street vendors
England > 1822
England > London > 1822
1825

Access: Public
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