A gentleman of moderate income [graphic] : making himself decent to dine out.

Published/Created:

[London]
Published 28th Novr. 1796 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
[28 November 1796]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching with engraving on wove paper ; plate mark 20 x 24.9 cm, on sheet 24 x 30 cm

Notes:

Title engraved below image.
From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls.
Plate numbered '174' in lower left corner.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. vii.

Abstract:

In his meager attic lodgings, a man dresses as his land lady looks on. On the wall is a poster with a portrait of Thomas Paine and a partially torn sign with the words "Buggs distroy'd", the art amplifying the subject.

Associated Names:

Laurie & Whittle [Publisher]

Topics:

Attics
Landlord & tenant relations
Mirrors
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809
Poverty
Shaving equipment

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings -- England -- London -- 1796
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1796

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

796.11.28.01

Orbis Record:

8109121

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr09894

OID:

10953003

PID:

digcoll:951341