Harrison's best Virginia in Bell Yard, Temple-Barr [graphic].

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Title: Harrison's best Virginia in Bell Yard, Temple-Barr [graphic].
Alternative Title: Harrison's tobacco paper
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, attributed name.
Published / Created: [approximately 1733]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Harrison
Abstract: A shop card with allegorical figures and a banner with the motto "In nocte laetamur" etched in a banner below the figures and above text
Description: Title etched below image.
Date from Paulson.
Formerly attributed to Hogarth. See R. Paulson, Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 17, p. 35.
On page 3 in volume 1. Sheet 95 x 70 mm.
Provenance: George Steevens bequeathed this collection to William Windham (1750-1810). At Windham's death, the collection was put up for sale on 20 July 1810 and was bought in by Mrs. Windham at 292 guineas; by descent through the Windham family; Sotheby's, 17 February 1919 to Dyson Perrins for £400; Sotheby's sale including Property of the Late C.W. Dyson Perrins, Esq., 11 June 1959, lot 100 purchased by Maggs Bros. for W.S. Lewis for £1300.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 7 x 7.6 cm
Language: English

Genre: Trade cards England
Engravings England London 1733
Material: etching and engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England.
Subject (Topic): Advertising
Tobacco
Subjects: Advertising > Tobacco > England
England
England > London > 1733
Steevens, George, 1736-1800 > Ownership
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958 > Ownership

Access: Public
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