[Tailpiece to White's "Sketches of Characters ... illustrative of the counties of Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, and Middlesex"] / W.J. White. Inv et Fecit.

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[Tailpiece to White's "Sketches of Characters ... illustrative of the counties of Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, and Middlesex"] / W.J. White. Inv et Fecit.
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plate mark: 84 x 125 mm; sheet: 123 x 165 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2317
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[London] : Pubd. by W.J. White March 31, 1818, [1818].
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Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
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Title from British Museum online catalog.

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Print illustrating a section on "Ann Manning", printed on page 11 of White's book, Sketches of Characters, Consisting of Whole Length Portraits, with Picturesque or Topographical Back-Grounds, and distinct Plates, illustrative of the counties of Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, and Middlesex / by William Johnstone White (London : William Johnstone White, Longman & Co, Cadell & Davies, et al., 1818) and showing a vignette of an old female quack doctor serving customers in a shop of remedies behind a counter, the front lettered with "Swindletown's / Daffy's / Elixir". Cf. BM Satires.

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