[Frontispiece to The lawyer's fortune, or, Love in a hollow tree] [graphic].

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Title
[Frontispiece to The lawyer's fortune, or, Love in a hollow tree] [graphic].
Alternative Title
Lawyer's fortune, or, Love in a hollow tree
Published / Created
[1736]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
E. Underhill
Abstract

A bearded man in a hollow tree reaches out his hand toward a gentleman below. Another man enters the hollow tree at its base. An owl looks on from a branch above; around the base of the tree are lion, boar, cat, and donkey

Description
Title from letterpress title page on same sheet.
Letterpress title page in red and black: The lawyer's fortune, or, Love in a hollow tree / written by **********. Revis'd and compar'd with the first edition in 1705. London : Printed for E. Underhill, and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, MDCCXXXVI. (Price six-pence).
Title page with woodcut image of an elephant walking a tight-rope.
Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above frontispiece: Imputed to Hogarth. See N 246. Mounted below: A lengthy ms. note in ink in Steevens's hand on separate sheet mounted beneath.
On page 83 in volume 1.
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 : plate mark x cm, on sheet x cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Frontispieces
Etchings England London 1740
Material
etching ;
Subject (Name)
Grimston, William Grimston, Viscount, 1683?-1756.
Subject (Topic)
Animals
Subjects
Grimston, William Grimston, Viscount, 1683?-1756
Animals
18th century
England > London > 1740
Steevens, George, 1736-1800 > Ownership
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958 > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
12626792
Object ID (OID)
16193958

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