Melting moments [graphic].

Description

Title: Melting moments [graphic].
Contributor: Bowles & Carver, publisher.
Published / Created: [1793?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Abstract: "A fat man shown head-and-shoulders to right, sweating profusely and mopping his bald pate with a handkerchief; in an oval."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title engraved below image.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of numbering. Missing number supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 2010,7081.1953.
Numbered "395" in lower left.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
No. 15 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries.
Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Provenance: From the H.J. Peters sale, Sotheby's, lot 230; December 1960;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 14.6 x 12 cm
Language: English

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