Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
A money scrivener.
Call Number
D North 52/GC112/Box 13/Normal/Prints/Titles Mi-N GA 2014.00378
Identifier
ark:/88435/z029pc82p
Publisher
[London] : [s.n.], 1801/01/01.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1801
Extent
1 item ; sheet 35 x 23.8 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Grego II, p. 22
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Etchings, Hand coloring
Depiction: The scrivener inhabits a poor, squalid office. His clerk is perched on a high stool by the window. The worthy wears a nightcap, and has a quill behind his ear. He is poring over a ledger at a tumbledown desk. One finger on his nose illustrates his absorption in some weighty deliberation. Files of accounts and boxes of deeds and papers form the rest of the scrivener's surroundings. Books on shelf have dates 1787, 1788 and 1789.
Unsigned.

Discovery Information

Subject
Caricature
City and town life—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Moneylenders—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Occupations—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/29ccb1af-3016-4268-a309-06e430c67c10/manifest