Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Possibly from: Paris and Dover, or, to and fro, a picturesque excursion : being a bird's-eye notion of a few 'Men and things' / by Roger Book'em., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Second sheet with letterpress text attached to print: To Calais. Peasants going to market. Vieilleuse is taking the benefit and indulgence due to her years, and riding her high horse, who is "creeping in a stealing pace" ..., and Second sheet attached to print 13 x 17 cm.
Page 243. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from text etched within banner at bottom of image., Possibly etched by William Wadd; statement of responsibility "W. Wadd fecit" written in ink in lower right corner of sheet., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalogue record., Perhaps a later version of the satirical coat of arms designed by Richard Edgcumbe, George Selwyn, George Williams, and Horace Walpole in 1756, which was engraved with the motto "Cog it amor nummi" at the bottom. Cf. No. 3350 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 3., Mounted to 18 x 24 cm., and Tipped in at page 243 in T. Crofton Croker's extra-illustrated copy of: A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Playing cards, Coats of arms, Barrels, and Drinking vessels
