Old Q-uiz the old goat of Piccadilly [graphic]

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Title: Old Q-uiz the old goat of Piccadilly [graphic]
Alternative Title: Old Quiz the old goat of Piccadilly
Creator: Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, printmaker
Contributor: Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, artist, publisher.
Published / Created: [25 February 1796]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published Feby. 25th, 1796, by R. Dighton, Charing Cross
Abstract: "Queensberry (right), walking beside a buxom young milliner, puts out an arm to touch her. His left hand is in a large muff. He wears a star and from his coat-pocket issue bottles labelled 'Renovating Balsam' and 'Velno's Vegetable Syrup' (see British Museum Satires No. 7592). She carries an arched-topped coffer (as in British Museum Satires No. 4923) and seems not unwilling."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Two lines of text below title: A shining star - in the British Peerage, and a usefull ornament to society. Fudge.
Temporary local subject terms: Male dress -- Trades: Milliners -- Velno's vegetable syrup -- Renovating balsam -- Containers: Milliners' coffer.
Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Sex behavior -- Velno's Syrup.
Leaf 9 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton.
1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.8 x 23.9 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm.
Provenance: Sold at Dominic Winter Auctions, 9 October 2020, lot 502, purchased through Jarndyce; October 2020.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 25.3 x 24.2 cm, on sheet 38 x 27 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English