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• Title:An hieroglyphic poetical epistle from [a gentleman] to [a lady] [graphic].
  
• Publication:[London] : Printed 21st October 1770, by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London, [21 October 1770]
  
• Physical Description:1 print : etching ; plate mark 34.9 x 22.6 cm, on sheet 36 x 24 cm
  

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  • Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings (Non-Circ)
    Request for Use in the Lewis Walpole Library
    
    
  • Call Number: 799.10.21.04
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Notes:Publication date partially erased from this impression and the last two digits, i.e., '70,' supplied in contemporary manuscript.
    Watermark: 1814.
    
  • Provenance:Leverhulme-Auchincloss ; Acquisitions no.:v. ii, 954-5-2-53.
    
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• Medium:laid paper.
  
• Local Notes:Temporary local subject terms: Hieroglyphs -- Letters.
  
• Notes:Title from item.
  Engraved rhymed letter in form of rebus.
  The words 'gentleman' and 'lady' within title are represented by portrait profiles of a young man and a young woman, respectively.
  Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
  
• Format:Visual Material
• Genre/Form:Rebuses.
  Satires (Visual works)--England--1770
  Etchings--England--London--1770.
  Watermarks (Paper)
  
• Also listed under:Laurie & Whittle, publisher.