The last drop [graphic].

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Title: The last drop [graphic].
Contributor: Darly, M. publisher.
Published / Created: May 11th, 1773.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. accord. to act by MDarly, (39) Strand
Abstract: "A short stout man stands on tip-toe by a table to drink from a large punch-bowl which he tilts forwards. Behind him stands a skeleton (right), its left hand on his shoulder, its right holding up a dart which it is about to plunge into the head of the drinker. An hour-glass where sands have run out is on the ground at his feet. The table (left) is a small round one, on it are a wine glass and pipe. Cf. British Museum Satires No. 5513."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description: Title etched below image.
Early state. For a reissue published by Robert Sayer, see no. 5172 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram.
Plate numbered "V. 2" in upper left corner and "1" in upper right corner.
Temporary local subject terms: Dishes: Punch bowl -- Glass: Wine glass -- Darts -- Hour-glass.
First of two plates on leaf 38.
Provenance: P. Murray Hill; August 1945;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 24.5 x 18 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 45 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 724 776D
Collection Title: Leaf 38. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Collection Date: [London] : Pubd. by Mary Darly, Jany. 1, 1776.

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1773
Etchings England London 1773
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Death (Personification)
Skeletons
Eating & drinking
Spears
Hourglasses
Subjects: Death (Personification)
Skeletons
Eating & drinking
Spears
Hourglasses
England > 1773
England > London > 1773

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