Accession number
PML 145850.231
Published
[London : s.n., 1733]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Frontispiece plate from: The state juggler, or, Sir Politick Ribband (London : Printed for T. Reynolds, 1733).
Inserted as item 232 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Inserted as item 232 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 154 x 104 mm; sheet: 164 x 111 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a young woman seated on a barrel of tobacco and smoking a pipe, the smoke which proceeds from her mouth is marked "Without Excise". Before her stands a rampant lion, with his left paw on the young woman's bare knee; he is also smoking a pipe; on the smoke he emits is " the Best in Christendom". Behind the young woman is a soldier armed with a musket; an exciseman, with a gauge under his arm, walks past on our right, in the background. In the upper left corner of the print is a compartment marked out of the wall or sky which serves as a background to the scene; in this compartment are two feet, or a pair of short stockings; near this compartment is a window, next to that is a bell-pull of cord with a tassel, and, on our right, a double sconce, without candles.
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