A man-trap [graphic].

Description

Title: A man-trap [graphic].
Contributor: Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793, publisher.
Published / Created: [between 1766 and 1789]
Publication Place: London and England London
Publisher: Printed for Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London. Publish’d as the act directs
Abstract: "A fashionably-dressed young woman reclining to left on a garden bench, looking provocative; roses and a sign-post lettered 'Spring Guns set here' behind to right, and a tree behind to left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.1943.
For a larger version with the same title, engraved by John Raphael Smith and published by Carrington Bowles in 1780, see no. 5814 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Numbered "303" in lower left corner.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Samuel Gedge; May 2020.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 15.3 x 12 cm, on sheet 16.0 x 12 cm
Language: English

Genre: Puns (Visual works)
Satires (Visual works) England 1766
Mezzotints England London 1766
Material: mezzotint with etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Young women
Subjects: Young women
England > 1766
England > London > 1766

Access: Public
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