Tea-drinking symptoms of polite conversation / [graphic]

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Title: Tea-drinking symptoms of polite conversation / [graphic]
Alternative Title: Symptoms of polite conversation
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 September 1794]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd Septr. 1st, 1794, by H. Humphrey, No. 37 New Bond Street
Description: Title from text below image.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
For prints of similar composition and subject matter, see nos. 8537 and 8538 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7.
Mounted on page 84 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Provenance: Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day viii, lot 50, to H.G. Bohn, £7.7.0 [London, 733]; from an undergraduate at King's College, through Scribner's, May 1952, to W.S. Lewis, $225.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 42.4 x 49 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 2, page 84. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Collection / Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector.
Collection Date: [Strawberry Hill], [between 1765 and 1792]

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1794
Stipple engravings England London 1794
Etchings England London 1794
Engravings England London 1794
Material: stipple engraving, etching, and engraving in sepia ink ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Tea
Servants
Fireplaces
Conversation
Subjects: Tea
Servants
Fireplaces
Conversation
England > 1794
England > London > 1794
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

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