500£ a year will do, for me and for you [graphic].

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Title: 500£ a year will do, for me and for you [graphic].
Alternative Title: Five hundred pounds a year will do, for me and for you
Contributor: Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, artist.
Bowles & Carver, publisher.
Published / Created: [approximately 1796?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for and sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard
Abstract: "Design in an oval. An elderly man (half length), full-face, with folded arms, grins broadly. He wears spectacles and is bald except for side-curls and a small pigtail queue."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
After Dighton. See British Museum catalogue.
Plate numbered '401' in lower left corner.
No. 14 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.
Sheet trimmed with loss of number "401".
1 print : mezzotint on wove paper ; sheet 14.5 x 11.1 cm.
Provenance: From the H.J. Peters sale, Sotheby's, lot 230; December 1960;
Extent: 1 print : oval design 14 x 11 cm, plate mark 15 x 12 cm, on sheet 19 x 14 cm
Language: English

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