500£ a year will do, for me and for you [graphic].
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Lewis Walpole Library > 500£ a year will do, for me and for you [graphic].
16192703
Description
- 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
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 75 C697 770
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Satires (Visual works) England 1796
Mezzotints England London 1796 - Material
- mezzotint ; and wove paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Topic)
-
Wigs
Eyeglasses - Subjects
-
Wigs
Eyeglasses
England > 1796
England > London > 1796
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 8050690
- Object ID (OID)
- 16192703