In Place. En Emploi. 539. [&] Out of Place. Hors d'Emplo. 540.
Printed for & Sold by Carington Bowles, No 69 in St Paul's Church Yard, London. Published as the Act directs [*****] [1784]
Rare matching pair of mezzotints with fine hand colour. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"), with very large margins. Remains of album paper stuck in margins, publication date erased.
In Place: a lawyer and government minister toast to their success with the Devil, surrounded with money bags. Out of Place: two out-of-officepoliticians sit shivering in a squalid room, as their landlady presents a bill. Dighton's original watercolours sold at Sotheby's, 23 February 1978.
BM Satires 3772 & 3773.
[Ref: 51702] £950.00
Rare matching pair of mezzotints with fine hand colour. 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"), with very large margins. Remains of album paper stuck in margins, publication date erased.
In Place: a lawyer and government minister toast to their success with the Devil, surrounded with money bags. Out of Place: two out-of-officepoliticians sit shivering in a squalid room, as their landlady presents a bill. Dighton's original watercolours sold at Sotheby's, 23 February 1978.
BM Satires 3772 & 3773.
[Ref: 51702] £950.00