Priscilla Tomboy [graphic]

Description

Title: Priscilla Tomboy [graphic]
Creator: Townley, Charles, 1746-approximately 1800, printmaker
Contributor: Byron, Frederick George, 1764-1792, artist.
Holland, William, active 1782-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 August 1794]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. August 1, 1794, by Willm. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Str
Abstract: A beautiful woman reclines on a sofa dangling a bandelure on a strong over the arm of the sofa to amuse a cat
Description: Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top.
Four lines of verse in two columns below title: Had I the treasures of the world, All the fun vies, or the seas borrow, Else my I to the Devil be hurl'd, I'd lay then at her feet to morrow.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Suckling; November 1958.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 26 x 34 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1794
Stipple engravings England London 1794
Material: stipple engraving in brown ink ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
Subject (Topic): Clothing & dress
Cats
Sofas
Subjects: Clothing & dress > England > 1790-1800
Cats
Sofas
England > 1794
England > London > 1794

Access: Public
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