The town before you, or, Welch wigs, or, Whimsicallities, or, How to save the tax on hair powder [graphic].

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Title: The town before you, or, Welch wigs, or, Whimsicallities, or, How to save the tax on hair powder [graphic].
Alternative Title: Welch wigs
Whimsicallities
How to save the tax on hair powder
No guinea pigs
Creator: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Contributor: Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [17 March 1795]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. March 17, 1795, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Description: Title from caption below image.
Questionable attribution to I. Cruikshank from unverified data in local card catalog record.
Design consists of twelve figures in two rows, each with text etched above.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on lower edge and to plate mark on other edges.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. vi.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 42.5 x 54 cm
Language: English

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