A long string of resolutions for a new year [graphic]

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Title: A long string of resolutions for a new year [graphic]
Creator: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Contributor: Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [2 January 1792]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. January 2, 1792, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly ...
Description: Title from caption etched below images on second and third sheets.
Publisher's advertisement following imprint: ... where may be had Chesterfields principles of politeness, sellected [sic] from the Earls letters, the best engraved print ever published of this kind.
Sixteen designs on four plates, each with a caption etched above.
Sheets trimmed within plate mark on one or more sides.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Gossips -- Authors -- Clergy: Parson -- Eye patches -- snuff boxes -- New Year's resolutions -- Gout -- Countrymen -- Preachers -- Drunkards -- Literature: Allusion to Principles of politeness by Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th earl of, 1694-1773.
Printseller's stamp in lower right corner of fourth sheet: S.W.F.
Watermark: I. Taylor.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. v.
Extent: 1 print on four sheets : sheets 34 x 53 cm or smaller
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1792
Etchings England London 1792
Watermarks (Paper)
Booksellers' stamps (Provenance) S. W. Fores
Material: etching with stipple, hand-colored ;
Subjects: England > 1792
England > London > 1792
S. W. Fores

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