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- Museum number
- 2020,4005.60
- Description
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Advert: Tomkin's Picture Lottery.
- Production date
- 1821
- Dimensions
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Length: 211 millimetres
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Width: 121 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Accompanying note, author unknown: 'Peltro William Tomkins (1759-1840) was an engraver, the son of William Tomkins, the landscape painter. In 1818 he published two art books at such expense that he incurred serious losses and was forced to obtain a private Act of Parliament to sell by lottery his collection of watercolours from which his etchings had been made, and his stock of unsold impressions. Tickets were either red or black: one colour was to win all the prizes, dependiing on the colour of the first drawn ticket - thus the particular feature of the scheme, that a purchaser of tickets of each colour was guaranteed a prize. Tickets were on sale from before March 1819. Tomkins had refused to name a date for the drawing until he was virtually forced to hold it in July 1821, suggesting that ticket sales were poor.'
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2020
- Department
- Coins and Medals
- Registration number
- 2020,4005.60
