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Love's Last Shift or The Old Fool in Fashion: P.180-1940

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Titles

Love's Last Shift or The Old Fool in Fashion

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Publisher: Sayer, Robert
Publisher: Bennett, J.

Entities

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Notes

History note: From the collection of Frederic Robert Halsey (1847-1918) [Lugt 1308]

Legal notes

Given by Louis C. G. Clarke, Trinity Hall, September 1940

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1940) by Clarke, Louis Colville Gray

Dating

18th Century
Production date: AD 1786

Note

Inscriptions on bottom "(How Frail is Man!)" and "London; Publish'd as the Act directs, Jan.y 2, 1786, by R. Sayer & J. Bennett, Map, Chart, & Printsellers, & Globe-makers, No. 53, Fleet Street."

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Mezzotint

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.180-1940
Primary reference Number: 206204
Lugt: 1308

Audit data

Created: Thursday 13 August 2015 Updated: Friday 28 August 2015

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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