Title from item., Place of publication derived from printer's address., Date supplied by curator., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
"The interior of an artisan's living-room. A young man, working at a carpenter's bench (left), turns round to look with pleased expectancy at a lottery ticket, which his wife holds out to him, alluringly inscribed with the royal arms, 'State Lottery Office L 30,000'. She is neatly dressed, wearing a hat; her apron is filled with a leg of mutton and vegetables. A child beside her has an open book, 'Road to Ruin', and looks anxiously at her mother. A well-dressed little girl plays with a cat. Simple prosperity is indicated by a well-filled hanging cupboard, and two shirts hanging on a line. On the wall is a print of Eve offering the apple to Adam."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Sunshine of hope
Description:
Title etched below image., Numbered '622' in the lower left corner., Companion print to: The ticket a blank, or, The clouds of despair. See British Museum catalogue, v. 5, no. 8232., and Mounted to 38 x 29 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Allegories, Carpenter shops, Carpenters, Cats, Families, Interiors, and Lottery tickets
Caption title., Text at bottom of page: Bank, India, and South Sea stocks with their several annuities, and all sorts of government securities, bought and sold by commission., The Lewis Walpole Library copy: Address to "Madam" and annotated as number "28998"., With contemporary manuscript notes in ink filling in the blanks in ticket., and For further information, consult library staff.
