The strangers at home [graphic].

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Title: The strangers at home [graphic].
Contributor: Laurie & Whittle, publisher.
Published / Created: [4 March 1797]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published March 4th, 1797, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Abstract: "Three well-dressed men sit at a small rectangular table drinking, singing, and smiling. The visible part of the room is bare, but framed pictures and a wall-paper above a dado indicate that it is well furnished. Beneath the title two verses of a drinking-song are engraved, beginning: 'Glorious Apollo from on high beheld us.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from item.
From the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series.
Fifteen lines of a drinking song in two columns below image: Glorious Apollo from on high beheld us ...
Numbered '178' in lower left below image.
Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: parlors -- Furniture: chairs -- Wallpaper -- Glass: wine glasses -- Singing -- Furnishings: pictures.
Watermark: Russell & Co. 1798.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. vii.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 20 x 25 cm, on sheet 24 x 29 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1794
Etchings England London 1794
Watermarks (Paper) Russell & Co. 1798
Material: etching with engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1794
England > London > 1794
Russell & Co. > 1798

Access: Public
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