Five of twenty-thousand pounds! and twenty-nine other captials
Description:
Title from text within image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Four lines of letterpress text below image: Second day of drawing, 17th this month, (March)-The wheel contains five of £20,000 and a variety ... J. & J. Sivewright, Contractors, 37 Cornhill; 11 Holborn; and 38 Haymarket., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from text within woodcut illustration; remainder of title from letterpress text beneath illustration., Woodcut illustration of a hot air ballloon with two flag-waving gentlemen seated in the basket. The flag to the left reads "No blanks"; the flag to the right, "All money.", Printed in red and blue ink., and Mounted to: 25 x 18 cm. With a sticker in upper left corner with blue crayon annotation "11-". For further information, consult library staff.
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 signed "Blank." The tools of his trade are scattered on the workbench and on the floor, including his trade guild tankard. On the wall to the right hangs an advertisement referring to the bubble lottery of 1698, on the left a broadside ridiculing Mongolfier's hot air balloon ascent earlier in the year. Below it lies a credit note from a baker
Description:
Title from caption etched above image., Publication information from a copy in the Peel Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., First of two images etched on the same plate and published as one print., Possibly after Ramberg's painting, Bad news., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Imperfect: original print includes two images. Publication line trimmed., and Mounted to 29 x 19 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 26, 1783, by Jno. Russell, Bond Street, Bath
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Tailors, Tailor shops, Lotteries, Poverty, and Interiors
"Dr. Lenetive, of "The Prize", finely dressed and seated on a chair, a table overturning to his right, waving his wig and a prize ticket in his hands; a lottery puff or handbill."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
New Year's Lottery begins 21st this month (Jan.), 2 of 20,000 guineas, and 40 other capitals
Description:
Title from heading to second paragraph of letterpress text, printed beneath double line., Text directly beneath woodcut: New Year's Lottery begins 21st this month (Jan.), 2 of 20,000 guineas, and 40 other capitals. All sterling money - no stock prizes. Tickets and shares are selling by the contractor, T. Bish, 4, Cornhill, and 9, Charing-Cross., Attribution to George Cruikshank and approximate date of publication from description of a similar handbill in the British Museum, which uses the same woodcut with slightly different text; cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1862,1217.149., Handbill with woodcut illustration at top and eighteen lines of letterpress text below., Quoted text beneath title begins: "My ticket, no. 2, 5, 3, 8, drawn this day a prize of ten thousand pounds! ..., Cf. Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank: a catalogue raisonné, 1442., and Cf. Reid, G.W. A descriptive catalogue of the works of George Cruikshank, 2825.
Title from text above image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Heading continues: The drift of this ladder to well comprehend, take a paddy's advice and begin at the end., Each of ten numbered images in sequence paired with letterpress caption: (1.) A wight by poverty oppress'd, by duns and creditors distriss'd, thus to his dame in dudgeon said, while dreams of horror fill'd his head (go to No. 2) ..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Caption in letterpress continues: I have been digging for good luck all my life; but I've foud it was a waste of thyme ..., Several sections of text in letterpress in lower portion of print: New lottery contains three prizes of £30,000 and 6,711 other prizes! ... Tickets and shares are selling by T. Bish, Stock-broker, 4 Cornhill and 9 Charing-Cross, London and by all his agents in the country., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Lottery, on a new plan, begins drawing October 20, 1807
Description:
Caption title., Handbill with details of the lottery and the supplementary draw., "Tickets and shares are on sale at J. Warner's Licensed Lottery Office ..."--Bottom of sheet., and Name and address of "Mrs. Scott" added in ink on verso. For further information, consult library staff.
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, and Areo, stick close my boys and let me have all the capital prizes in my calculation." Before him on the table are ink bottle and quill, several books, including one entitled Calculations and another Conjurations, together with The life of Duncan Campbel, deaf & dumb fortune-teller. Molesworth in 1774 authored Proofs of the reality and truth of lottery calculations
Description:
Title etched below image. and Dedication etched below title: This plate is humbly inscribed to all keeper's of lottery offices by their humble servt. A.B.
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 with the most perfect composure -- a useful lesson for those persons who are too apt to be over elated at an unexpected change of fortune."
Description:
Title and plate number etched above image., "No. 8.", Plate from a series of twenty without letterpress: Le Brun travested, or, Caricatures of the passions / design'd by G.M. Woodward and etch'd by T. Rowlandson. London : Pubd. 21 Jany. 1800 at R. Ackermann''s Repository of Arts, 101 Strand., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 29.5 x 23.5 cm., State without plate number., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Pub. 21 Jan. 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
