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• Title:Statute Hall, or, The modern Register Office [graphic] / M. Darly ext.
  
• Publication:[London] : Publish'd by the inventor M. Darly accordg. to act of Parliament, April 10, 1769, at No. 39 Strand, [10 April 1769]
  
• Physical Description:1 print : etching with engraving ; sheet 24.5 x 34 cm
  

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  • Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating)
    Request for Use in the Lewis Walpole Library
    
    
  • Call Number: Quarto 724 771N
    
  • Status:No information available 
  • Notes:Folded to 24.5 x 24.3 cm; mounted to 32 x 26 cm.
    Mounted on page 150 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
    
  • Provenance:Schatzki, lot 1193; June 1961; Acquisitions no.: 961-6-3-23.
    With the armorial bookplates of "Fraser, of Ledeclune, baronet" and "Herbert Henry Raphael" in volume. Sold at Sotheby's, 22 April 1901, to Sotheran.
    
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  • Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings (Non-Circ)
    Request for Use in the Lewis Walpole Library
    
    
  • Call Number: 769.04.10.01+
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Notes:1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; sheet 24 x 34 cm.
    Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint from bottom edge.
    Mounted to 27 x 40 cm.
    
  • Provenance:Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. ii; May 1954; Acquisitions no.:954-5-2-24.
    
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• Medium:laid paper.
  
• Notes:Title engraved below image.
  Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
  For a variant state bearing the imprint of Robert Sayer, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1860,0623.23.
  Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
  
• Summary:In a large room of an employment agency, prospective employers interview their potential hires. At the extreme right is a desk with the manager of the agency sitting behind it . On the desk is large open volume entitled "Order from Covent Garden for tid-bits". Next to it lies a note, "To Mr. Double Face, Statute Hall." In the foreground, next to the desk, a young man and woman sit on a bench waiting their turn. Numerous pairs around the room conduct interviews, including an older woman examining the face of a young manservant; a macaroni feeling the bosom of a maidservant; an old woman in spectacles poking the chest of a large coachman with a whip in his hand; a bishop leering at a young woman holding a box under her arm; and a pair in the background on the left holding a paper "Hell Fire Jack at the Bedford". In the background on the far right two young women stand against the wall, under an advertisement: "Two ladies want places with single gentlemen willing to do any thing." Other advertisements hang on the back wall.
  
• In_: King, Richard, Esq. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?]. Page 150.
  
• Variant and related titles:Modern Register Office
  
• Format:Visual Material
• Subjects:Employment agencies.
  Interiors.
  Interviews.
  Desks.
  Benches.
  Servants.
  Dandies--British.
  Women domestics.
  Coach drivers.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Raphael, Herbert H.--Ownership
  Fraser, William Augustus Sir, 1826-1898--Ownership.
  
• Genre/Form:Satires (Visual works)--England--1769.
  Etchings--England--London--1769.
  
• Also listed under:Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, artist, publisher.