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- Published / Created:
- [24 August 1809]
- Call Number:
- 809.08.24.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Scene in a lawyer's office with writing-desk, books, &c. An old man, flinching from a grotesque hairy Devil, who beckons him to Hell, is supported by a pretty young woman. On the wall are a print: 'Pilgrims Progress', a tiny figure surrounded by demons and flames; a notice inscribed 'Stamps'; and a pictorial '[Alm]anack'. On the chimney-piece a figure holds a (tilted) pair of scales and a candle gutters."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from text printed in letterpress below image., Two columns of verse in letterpress below title: Old Flam was a lawyer so grim, he married his maid, people say ..., Plate numbered '509' in upper left corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark: John Hall 1805.
- Publisher:
- Published 24 Augt. 1809 by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Ghosts, Crutches, Fireplaces, Devil, and Scales
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Lawyer Flam, his wife, and Flam's ghost sung with unbounded applause, by Mr. Dowton in the comic opera called "Up all night, or the smuggler's cave" performed at the English opera, Lyceum Theatre, Strand. [graphic]