A miserable, angry-looking tailor stands in the middle of his dilapidated workshop. His wig is turned sideways on his head, his empty pockets turned wrong side out, and his stockings undone. Between his feet on the floor lies a large lottery ticket si...
Description:
Title from caption etched above image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 26, 1783, by Jno. Russell, Bond Street, Bath
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Tailors, Tailor shops, Lotteries, Poverty, and Interiors
An elated cobbler skips joyfully in his dilapidated workshop waving his wig with one hand and a "10000" pound lottery ticket with the other. The tools of his trade are scattered on the floor
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 26, 1783, by Jno. Russell, Bond Street, Bath
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Shoemakers, Lotteries, Poverty, Interiors, and Clothing & dress
Design in an oval depicts John Molesworth holding a wand seated at a wooden table and wearing a conical hat and dressing gown. He points towards lottery wheels from which 2 small boys wearing paper crowns observe him. Molesworth is saying "Eo, Meo, an...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, Augt. 30th, 1776, by A.B., London
A brewer (left) accepts a note for five thousand [pounds] from a young man in profile (right). Three lines of text below image: "This passion is represented by a philosophical brewer, who having gained a considerable prize in the lottery, receives it ...
Description:
Title and plate number etched above image.
Publisher:
Pub. 21 Jan. 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Twenty-four letterpress and engraved lottery puffs uncut on one sheet. Each puff includes engravings of Twelfth night character by George Cruikshank and an 8-line poem
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger.
Publisher:
J. & J. Sivewright ... 37, Cornhill, 11, Holburn, 38 Haymarket, 141, Oxford-St
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., and England.
Subject (Topic):
Lotteries, Marketing, Advertising, Caricatures and cartoons, and Animals in human situations
Roth, William, active approximately 1768-1770, printmaker
Published / Created:
published as the act directs, [1767 or 1768]
Call Number:
767.00.00.44
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
John Alder, a cooper of Abingdon, shown three-quarters length and facing the viewer, holding a piece of paper informing him that his was the winning number in a lottery with a prize of 20000
