EMBLEMS OF 1760 & 1780.

DateJanuary 1, 1780

Publisher Robert Wilkinson

MediumBlack and white mezzotint engraving with period hand color

DimensionsOH: 14" x OW: 9 7/8"

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number1973-251

DescriptionThe lower margin reads: "EMBLEMS OF/ 1760 & 1780./ In this poor and humble station,/ See an emblem of the nation,/ Plump, facetious, brisk, and jolly,/ Till reduced by vice and folly;/ But now meager poor, and lean,/ Like some weather beaten queen,/ To destruction fast she goes,/ Like the Gin her spirit flows./ London, Published as the Act directs 1.st Jan.y 1780 by Rob.t Wilkinson at N.o58 in Cornhill."ProvenanceBefore 1973, Walter T. Spencer (London, England); 1973-present, purchased by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (Williamsburg, VA).