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1. Universal business a poem with cutts. Part II / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bickham, George, 1684?-1758?, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- publish'd according to act of Parliamt. May 10th 1746.
- Call Number:
- 746.05.10.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A mock playing card folded lengthwise in center to create four 'pages.' The title, quotation from The Beggar's opera and imprint create the first external page; opposite is an ace of clubs creating the fourth, also external page when the sheet is folded. On the second 'page' inside is an image, opposite sixteen lines of verse on the third 'page.' The image shows three ladies gathered around a table in an elegant room with a view through a large window on another townhouse across the street. The lady seated on the left hands an ace of clubs to a dwarfish man, probably a servant. The two ladies on the right appear to examine cards on the table, the top of which is hidden from view. One of them holds up another ace of clubs. The verse begins as follows: Lady D--t & her daughters were all gone from home, when the card was deliver'd from dear Lady Drum ...
- Description:
- Title from item., Published by George Bickham the younger (1704-1771)?, Two lines of quotation below title: With how d'ye do, and how d'ye do, and how d'ye do again. Beg. Op. [i.e., Beggar's Opera]., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Mock playing cards -- Literature: quotation from The Beggar's opera by John Gay, 1685-1732.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Universal business a poem with cutts. Part II / [graphic]
2. Universal business a poem with cutts. Part II / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bickham, George, 1684?-1758?, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- publish'd according to act of Parliamt. May 10th 1746.
- Call Number:
- 746.05.10.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A mock playing card folded lengthwise in center to create four 'pages.' The title, quotation from The Beggar's opera and imprint create the first external page; opposite is an ace of clubs creating the fourth, also external page when the sheet is folded. On the second 'page' inside is an image, opposite sixteen lines of verse on the third 'page.' The image shows three ladies gathered around a table in an elegant room with a view through a large window on another townhouse across the street. The lady seated on the left hands an ace of clubs to a dwarfish man, probably a servant. The two ladies on the right appear to examine cards on the table, the top of which is hidden from view. One of them holds up another ace of clubs. The verse begins as follows: Lady D--t & her daughters were all gone from home, when the card was deliver'd from dear Lady Drum ...
- Description:
- Title from item., Published by George Bickham the younger (1704-1771)?, Two lines of quotation below title: With how d'ye do, and how d'ye do, and how d'ye do again. Beg. Op. [i.e., Beggar's Opera]., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Mock playing cards -- Literature: quotation from The Beggar's opera by John Gay, 1685-1732.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Universal business a poem with cutts. Part II / [graphic]
3. Universal business a poem with cutts. Part II / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bickham, George, 1684?-1758?, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- publish'd according to act of Parliamt. May 10th 1746.
- Call Number:
- 746.05.10.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A mock playing card folded lengthwise in center to create four 'pages.' The title, quotation from The Beggar's opera and imprint create the first external page; opposite is an ace of clubs creating the fourth, also external page when the sheet is folded. On the second 'page' inside is an image, opposite sixteen lines of verse on the third 'page.' The image shows three ladies gathered around a table in an elegant room with a view through a large window on another townhouse across the street. The lady seated on the left hands an ace of clubs to a dwarfish man, probably a servant. The two ladies on the right appear to examine cards on the table, the top of which is hidden from view. One of them holds up another ace of clubs. The verse begins as follows: Lady D--t & her daughters were all gone from home, when the card was deliver'd from dear Lady Drum ...
- Description:
- Title from item., Published by George Bickham the younger (1704-1771)?, Two lines of quotation below title: With how d'ye do, and how d'ye do, and how d'ye do again. Beg. Op. [i.e., Beggar's Opera]., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Mock playing cards -- Literature: quotation from The Beggar's opera by John Gay, 1685-1732.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Universal business a poem with cutts. Part II / [graphic]
