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Object Type
Museum number: 1859,0709.786
Title: Object: The Effects of Youthful Extravagance & Idleness
Description: Poverty-stricken family in bare, attic interior; man seated at left beside table, skinny dog beside him, looking away from woman, standing in centre mending garment, watched by boy lying on floor and resting on stool at right, looking up from his reading; young woman sitting dejectedly with bellows beside fireplace, at right; published state. 1 July 1789 Mezzotint
Producer name: Print made by: William Ward; After: George Morland; Published by: Thomas Simpson
School/style
Production date: 1789
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 554 millimetres; Width: 405 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Frankau 1904 / Eighteenth Century Artists and Engravers: William Ward A.R.A. and James Ward R.A. (104); Chaloner Smith 1883 / British Mezzotinto portraits from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century (undescribed)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: poverty; allegory/personification
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1859
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1859,0709.786

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