Accession number:
PML 145850.169
Published:
[France? : s.n., 17--]
Description:
1 print : etching ; image: 68 x 134 mm; plate mark: 74 x 141 mm; sheet: 153 x 225 mm
Credit:
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes:
Title from item.
Inserted as item 169 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Print shows the naked, blindfolded, and irradiated figure of Fortune standing atop a lottery barrel suspended on a cloud, with bills of various denominations flying forth into the hands of an eager crowd below.
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