The lottery office keeper's prayer!! [graphic]

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11791867

Description

Title
The lottery office keeper's prayer!! [graphic]
Creator
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Published / Created
[1801]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
Printed by E. Spragg, No. 27, Bow-Street, Covent Garden and R. Ackermann
Abstract

"A man, fashionably dressed and vulgar, kneels on one knee, praying to a large framed picture of Fortune. She stands blindfolded on her wheel, empties coins and notes from a cornucopia, and holds out a placard: 'Peter Puffs Lucky Lottery Office'. He begs 'Insurance to my Schemes, so that they may turn up Prizes, and prevent my looking Blank when bowing at thy Altar', and, inter alia, that all old women and children may dream incessantly of the lottery, so shall the nocturnal Visions of old Chairs and Tables be converted into lucky Numbers...'"--British Museum online catalogue

Description
Title printed in letterpress below plate line.
Publisher and date from British Museum catalogue.
Four paragraphs of letterpress text below title: Kind and benignant fortune! Aid an adventurer prostrate before thy shrine, ...
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on side edges with partial loss of exclamation point in the title and printer's line.
Mounted on verso of leaf 77 of volume 7 of 14 volumes.
Provenance
From a collection in fourteen volumes compiled by Francis Harvey and dispersed at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Sold at Sotheby, London, 12 March 1919. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
Extent
1 print : sheet 42.7 x 25 cm
Extent of Digitization
This object has been completely digitized.
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number
Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 7

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Satires (Visual works) England 1801
Drypoints England London 1801
Etchings England London 1801
Material
etching and drypoint ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Topic)
Prayer
Subjects
Prayer
England > 1801
England > London > 1801
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
12832543
Object ID (OID)
11791867

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