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Harrison's best Virginia in Bell Yard, Temple-Barr
Title
Harrison's best Virginia in Bell Yard, Temple-Barr [graphic].
Publication
[London] : [Harrison], [approximately 1733]
Physical Description
1 print : etching and engraving ; sheet 7 x 7.6 cm
Medium
wove paper.
Notes
Title etched below image.
Date from Paulson.
Formerly attributed to Hogarth. See R. Paulson, Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 17, p. 35.
Provenance
George Steevens bequeathed this collection to William Windham (1750-1810). At Windham's death, the collection was put up for sale on 20 July 1810 and was bought in by Mrs. Windham at 292 guineas; by descent through the Windham family; Sotheby's, 17 February 1919 to Dyson Perrins for £400; Sotheby's sale including Property of the Late C.W. Dyson Perrins, Esq., 11 June 1959, lot 100 purchased by Maggs Bros. for W.S. Lewis for £1300.
Summary
A shop card with allegorical figures and a banner with the motto "In nocte laetamur" etched in a banner below the figures and above text.
Variant and related titles
Title in Paulson: Harrison's tobacco paper
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 08, 2014
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Trade cards - England.
Engravings - England - London - 1733.
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