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Author/Creator:Bickham, George, 1684?-1758?, printmaker, publisher.
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Title:A new deceptio visûs [graphic] / engrav'd and sold by Geo. Bickham in Hatton Garden, near Holborn, London.
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Published/Created:[London] : [Geo. Bickham], [ca. 1728]
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Physical Description:1 print : etching and engraving ; sheet 215 x 175 mm
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Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings (Non-Circ)
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Call Number: 728.00.00.08+
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Status:Not Checked Out
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Provenance:Joel Bergquist; December 2014.
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Digital version
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Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings (Non-Circ)
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Notes:Title from print in upper right.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of docket title and associated text. Perimeter of the design has been heavily inked in black, obscuring all but the images of the prints. The gold coin has been decorated with gold lead and the background of this print is also heavily inked in black.
A composite of images and verses to form a greeting card, folded for mailing as advertisement for Bickham's engravings. With docket title: With docket title: A new Deceptio Visus, or A guinea for a shilling : being a curious medley, by way of letter / engrav'd and sold by Geo. Bickham, at his drawing school, at Hatten Garden near Holburn, London. See impression in the Library of Congress, PC 3 - 1729 - Near deceptio.
See also working proof (?) at the British Museum online catalogue, no. 1980,U.861.
Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
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Summary:A medley of images with a portrait of John Gay; half length, to the right, wearing a cap and plain jacket; in oval; in a medley of prints, set on background of a letter; the prints titled 'The Spell', 'The Judgement', and 'Bumkinet's Advice'; two further panels, one with a coin of George II, the other lettered 'A new Deceptio Visus. Engrav'd and sold by Geo. Bickham, in London' [part of address erased].
- Format:Visual Material
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Subjects:Dennis, John, 1657-1734.
Congreve, William, 1670-1729.
Curll, Edmund, 1675-1747
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760--Portraits.
Gay, John, 1685-1732--Portraits.
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
Prior, Matthew, 1664-1721.
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.
Harte, Walter, 1709-1774.
Pegasus.
Coins.
Columns.
Musical instruments.
Puzzles.
Ruins.
Wells--Greece.
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Genre/Form:Medley prints.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1728.
Etchings--England--London--1728.
Engravings--England--London--1728.
Annotations (Provenance)--18th century.
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