Speculation, or, A new way of saving a thousand pounds an original tale. [graphic]

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Title: Speculation, or, A new way of saving a thousand pounds an original tale. [graphic]
Alternative Title: New way of saving a thousand pounds
Creator: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Contributor: Laurie & Whittle, publisher.
Published / Created: [12 October 1798]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published 12th October 1798 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Description: Title printed below plate.
Printmaker identified from the original drawing in the Huntington Library.
Text of the tale printed in three columns below title: Hazard, a careless fellow, known at every gambling house in town was oft in want of money, yet could never bear to run in debt ...
One of the series of Laurie & Whittle drolls.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Dining room -- Glass: decanter -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Ancestral knights -- Genealogy -- Young women -- Domestic service: footmen -- Reference to marriage contract.
Watermark: 1796.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. vii.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 19.5 x 25.1 cm, on sheet 47 x 28 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1798
Etchings England London 1798
Engravings England London 1798
Broadsides
Watermarks (Paper) 1796
Material: etching & engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Gambling
Interiors
Subjects: Gambling
Interiors
England > 1798
England > London > 1798
1796

Access: Public
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