Search the world you'll seldom see, handsomer folks than we three [graphic].

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Title: Search the world you'll seldom see, handsomer folks than we three [graphic].
Creator: Dawe, Philip, printmaker
Contributor: Bowles & Carver, publisher.
Published / Created: [not before 1793]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for Bowles & Carver at their Map & Print Warehouse, No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Abstract: Two grotesque figures of a well-dressed man and woman stand before a background of Corinthian pillars topped with Doric capitals. The man points with his left hand to his mouth and grimaces at the viewer
Description: Title from item.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
First published by Carington Bowles on 20 October 1775; original publication date burnished from the plate. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 5, p. 786.
Date of publication inferred from paper and from date of the Bowles & Carver partnership formed after the 1793 death of Carington Bowles. See Plomer, H.R. Dictionaries of printers and booksellers, p. 31.
Numbered in plate: 332.
Provenance: Print Room; Sept. 1997;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 34.9 x 25.2 cm, on sheet 37 x 27 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1775
Mezzotints England London 1793
Material: mezzotint ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
Subject (Topic): Couples
Clothing & dress
Subjects: Couples
Clothing & dress > England > 1770-1780
England > 1775
England > London > 1793

Access: Public
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