Debating Society (substitute for hair powder). [graphic]

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Title: Debating Society (substitute for hair powder). [graphic]
Creator: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Contributor: Laurie & Whittle, publisher.
Published / Created: [5 May 1795]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published 5th May 1795 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Description: Title from item.
Printmaker identified from an original drawing in the Huntington Library.
One line of text below title: Silence gentlemen! to order, only ten speak at a time ...
Plate numbered '152' in lower right corner.
One of a series of Drolls.
Temporary local subject terms: Debating societies -- Taxes: hair powder tax, May 6, 1795 -- Pictures amplifying subject: braying ass.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. vi.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 20 x 25 cm, on sheet 23 x 28 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1795
Engravings England London 1795
Etchings England London 1795
Material: etching with engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1795
England > London > 1795

Access: Public
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