I. Calculator, Esqr. aetat 24, the celebrated conjuror. [graphic]

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Title: I. Calculator, Esqr. aetat 24, the celebrated conjuror. [graphic]
Published / Created: [30 August 1776]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd as the act directs, Augt. 30th, 1776, by A.B., London
Abstract: Design in an oval depicts John Molesworth holding a wand seated at a wooden table and wearing a conical hat and dressing gown. He points towards lottery wheels from which 2 small boys wearing paper crowns observe him. Molesworth is saying "Eo, Meo, and Areo, stick close my boys and let me have all the capital prizes in my calculation." Before him on the table are ink bottle and quill, several books, including one entitled Calculations and another Conjurations, together with The life of Duncan Campbel, deaf & dumb fortune-teller. Molesworth in 1774 authored Proofs of the reality and truth of lottery calculations
Description: Title etched below image.
Dedication etched below title: This plate is humbly inscribed to all keeper's of lottery offices by their humble servt. A.B.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 24.9 x 17.6 cm, on sheet 28 x 21 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1776
Etchings England London 1776
Aquatints England London 1776
Material: etching & aquatint ;
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England.
Subject (Name): Molesworth, John
Subject (Topic): Lotteries
Frauds
Hats
Magicians
Subjects: Molesworth, John > Caricatures and cartoons
Lotteries > England
Frauds > England
Hats
Magicians
England > 1776
England > London > 1776
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

Access: Public
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