Let us all be unhappy together [graphic].

Description

Title: Let us all be unhappy together [graphic].
Contributor: Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794, publisher.
Published / Created: [24 February 1794]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published 24th Feby. 1794 by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street
Abstract: "Five men sit at a small square table on which are glasses and an empty punch-bowl, all have expressions of deep melancholy: one reverses his glass, another breaks his pipe, the bowl of which still smokes, the third weeps, the fourth looks down with a gesture of deprecating misery, the fifth looking towards the viewer."--British Museum online catalogue, description of earlier state
Description: Title from ballad engraved below image: We bipeds made up of frail clay ...
Numbered "317" on left below image.
Later state, by a different publisher. Cf. No. 8596 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7.
Temporary local subject terms: Social gatherings -- Male costume, 1794 -- Stockings -- Dishes: punch bowl -- Wine glasses -- Smoking: pipes -- Wallpaper -- Furniture: chairs.
Extent: 1 print: plate mark 35 x 25.2 cm, on sheet 36 x 26 cm
Edition: [State with plate no.].
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1794
Genre prints
Ballads
Mezzotints England London 1794
Material: mezzotint ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1794
England > London > 1794

Access: Public
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