The lottery office keeper's prayer!! [graphic]Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker[1801]eng"A man, fashionably dressed and vulgar, kneels on one knee, praying to a large framed picture of Fortune. She stands blindfolded on her wheel, empties coins and notes from a cornucopia, and holds out a placard: 'Peter Puffs Lucky Lottery Office'. He begs 'Insurance to my Schemes, so that they may turn up Prizes, and prevent my looking Blank when bowing at thy Altar', and, inter alia, that all old women and children may dream incessantly of the lottery, so shall the nocturnal Visions of old Chairs and Tables be converted into lucky Numbers...'"--British Museum online catalogueTitle printed in letterpress below plate line.Publisher and date from British Museum catalogue.Four paragraphs of letterpress text below title: Kind and benignant fortune! Aid an adventurer prostrate before thy shrine, ...Sheet trimmed within plate mark on side edges with partial loss of exclamation point in the title and printer's line.Mounted on verso of leaf 77 of volume 7 of 14 volumes.