Modern antiques [graphic].

Published/Created:

London
Publish'd as the act directs, Sept. 20, 1793, by T. Prattent, 46 Cloth Fair, West Smithfield
[20 September 1793]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching, hand-colored, on wove paper ; sheet 20 x 25 cm.

Notes:

Title engraved below image.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Walter Schatzki; August 1969; Acquisitions no.: 969-8-1-3.

Abstract:

An elderly antiquarian guides a fashionably dressed young lady and gentleman through a natural history museum, unaware that the gentleman is passing a letter to the lady. In and around the cases are exotic animals, insects, reptiles, and a mummy.

Associated Names:

Prattent, Thomas, active 1780-1796 [Publisher]

Topics:

Alligators
Birds
Butterflies
Couples
Courtship
Frogs
Galleries & museums
Insects
Mummies
Scholars
Snakes
Specimens

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings -- England -- London -- 1793
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1793

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html

Call Number:

793.09.20.01

Orbis Record:

7949532

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr07930

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10957390

PID:

digcoll:553089