"Five elderly men dressed in the fashion of youth."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., One of the series of Laurie & Whittle drolls., Numbered '196' in lower left of plate., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Old men -- Morning Herald -- Literature: reference to Ovid's Art of Love -- Magnifying glasses -- Pince-nez -- Walking staves -- Duelling: crossed foils -- Placards., and Watermark (partial).
Publisher:
Published 22nd August 1797 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Bachelors, Older people, Newspapers, Reading, Staffs (Sticks), Signs (Notices), Hand lenses, and Mirrors
June [blank] 1757. As the Act of Parliament for an additional duty on news-papers will take place the 5th of next month ...
Description:
Title transcribed from item., Text at bottom: I am, [blank], your most obliged, humble servant, [blank]., and Form completed in ink on 25 June 1757, with a 10/- per quarter cost for the Evening Post and 5/- for the Weekly Journal noted in lower left; annotated "Rec'd for June 27 -1757" in upper left; signed "Jos. Baker" in lower right. For further information, consult library staff.
"A lank barber, holding his customer by the nose and negligently slicing at it with his razor, reads from 'The London Gazette' which his victim holds: They write from Amsterdam (cf. BMSat 9412). The enraged customer shouts "Hallohl you Sir - what are you about? are you going to cut my nose off."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Series title and number etched above image., and Temporary local subject terms: Reference to Amsterdam -- Containers: jugs.
Publisher:
Publishd. Augt. 30, 1799, by R. Akerman, No. 101 Strand
Title from from dialogue etched below image., Publisher's announcement following imprint: ... sole publisher of W. Heath etching., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
"A group of men sitting around a table, one in the centre pointing at his own palm, while two others on the right watch attentively and a third on the left holds out his palm but looks back at a maid holding a staff who approaches an owl perched on a stand nearby; with a fifth man standing behind the others, holding a staff and reading a paper through spectacles and a suit of armour in the background to right; after Hogarth's sketch known as 'Debates on Palmistry'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Mounted to 323 x 475 mm.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs Febry. 1, 1782 at No. 3 Clements Inn
Subject (Topic):
Armor, Fortune telling, Newspapers, Owls, Reading, and Servants
"A group of men sitting around a table, one in the centre pointing at his own palm, while two others on the right watch attentively and a third on the left holds out his palm but looks back at a maid holding a staff who approaches an owl perched on a stand nearby; with a fifth man standing behind the others, holding a staff and reading a paper through spectacles and a suit of armour in the background to right; after Hogarth's sketch known as 'Debates on Palmistry'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Ms. note in Steevens's hand above print: Wretched stuff., and On page 214 in volume 3.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs Febry. 1, 1782 at No. 3 Clements Inn
Subject (Topic):
Armor, Fortune telling, Newspapers, Owls, Reading, and Servants
"A group of men sitting around a table, one in the centre pointing at his own palm, while two others on the right watch attentively and a third on the left holds out his palm but looks back at a maid holding a staff who approaches an owl perched on a stand nearby; with a fifth man standing behind the others, holding a staff and reading a paper through spectacles and a suit of armour in the background to right; after Hogarth's sketch known as 'Debates on Palmistry'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Publisher from 2nd state.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs Febry. 1, 1782
Subject (Topic):
Armor, Fortune telling, Newspapers, Owls, Reading, and Servants
