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1. Chevalier D-E-n returnd, or, The stock-brokers outwitted [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1771]
- Call Number:
- 771.08.00.01 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Scene in a stockbroker's office, or perhaps in Jonathan's or Lloyd's, a room with a small writing-desk (right) and on the wall a 'Table of Interest'. The Chevalier d'Eon, dressed as a man, enters from the left and is greeted by a stockbroker who takes his left hand and points with his right to other brokers on the right who watch the entry, some with dismay, others with pleasure."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Stock-brokers outwitted, Stockbrokers outwitted, and Chevalier D'Eon returned
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Publication place and date inferred from that of the magazine for which this plate was engraved., Date in British Museum catalogue as: 1 September 1771., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 7 (1771), p. 56., and Mounted to 32 x 46 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Eon de Beaumont, Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée d', 1728-1810
- Subject (Topic):
- Jews, Desks, Ethnic stereotypes, Cross dressing, Gambling, Stock exchanges, and Stockbrokers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Chevalier D-E-n returnd, or, The stock-brokers outwitted [graphic].