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The reviewers cave
Title
The reviewers cave [graphic].
Publication
[London?] : [publisher not identified], [1765]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; sheet 25 x 20 cm
Medium
laid paper.
Local Notes
Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: dungeon -- Reviewers -- Birds: owl -- Serpent -- Publications: stack of printed sheets -- Posters -- Personifications: Genius of Dulness -- Porters -- Containers: basket -- Books -- Asses -- Altars -- Lighting: oil lamp -- Literature: The powers of the pen by Evan Lloyd.
Notes
Title from item.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Publication date from an unverified card catalog record, based on the reproduction in Paston. See Social caricature in the eighteenth century, by Paston, 1905.
Attributed to Mortimer in contemporary hand on verso. Also added in contemporary hand in the lower left corner of design: EP.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Frontispiece to: The powers of the pen / by Evan Lloyd. London, 1765.
Early state, with the face of the president turned away from the viewer, of No. 4247 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 17, 2008
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1765.
Etchings - England - London - 1765.
Book illustrations.
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